Cornell AJF 2014 + Boston / DC Job Fairs, OCI & Mass Mailing Forum

[Anonymous User]

AJF, what an adventure.

How's mass-mailing going guys?

[Anonymous User]

Anyone hear from SullCrom yet?

[Anonymous User]

Cadwalader CB. Interviewer was NW.

[Anonymous User]

Sidley (LA) and Weil (JA) dings

[Anonymous User]

Don't know if any of this will help, but:

CBs:
Simpson Thacher (NY)
Paul Hastings (NY)
Gibson Dunn (DC)
Cleary Gottleib (DC)

Dings:
Cravath (NY)
WilmerHale (DC)
Davis Polk (NY)

Waiting eagerly to hear on SullCrom and a few others.

[Anonymous User]

Am I the only one who thinks today's been the slowest yet?

[Anonymous User]

Agreed. Any word on Wilson Sonsini, Freshfields or Linklaters yet?

[Anonymous User]

Freshfields apparently didn't tell some people until really late last year, judging by the thread.

[Anonymous User]

Hughes Hubbard, Ding (CM)
Dentons US, Callback (JB)

[spiritniffler189]

Freshfields apparently didn't tell some people until really late last year, judging by the thread.

They also mailed out rejections. I remember going back to Ithaca weeks after AJF and realizing they didn't forget about me.

[Anonymous User]

Freshfields apparently didn't tell some people until really late last year, judging by the thread.

They also mailed out rejections. I remember going back to Ithaca weeks after AJF and realizing they didn't forget about me.

Do all firms get back to all interviewees, whether good or bad news? I know some people received Cahill CBs pretty early on. I haven't heard anything from them yet. Should I assume the silence is a rejection, or just still pending?

[hephaestus]

Freshfields apparently didn't tell some people until really late last year, judging by the thread.

They also mailed out rejections. I remember going back to Ithaca weeks after AJF and realizing they didn't forget about me.

Do all firms get back to all interviewees, whether good or bad news? I know some people received Cahill CBs pretty early on. I haven't heard anything from them yet. Should I assume the silence is a rejection, or just still pending?

Generally callbacks from the same firm tend to roll out within a day of each other (one interviewer may call back on Thursday night and then another attorney might make her calls Friday morning etc). So usually the silence is a rejection if this far apart, but you never know.

As an aside, if it's been over a week and you haven't heard, you should follow up with the attorney that you screened with and say you are very interested and look forward to hearing from the firm. Some firms, especially those with smaller summer classes, can take a while to give out callbacks.

[Anonymous User]

Maybe this is in one of the previous threads or something, but does anyone know what a typical screener:callback:offer ratio for AJF is?

I heard from somewhere that if you get a callback, there's like a 50/50 chance they're going to extend an offer but i have no idea whether that's true.

[Lavitz]

Maybe this is in one of the previous threads or something, but does anyone know what a typical screener:callback:offer ratio for AJF is?

I heard from somewhere that if you get a callback, there's like a 50/50 chance they're going to extend an offer but i have no idea whether that's true.

Depends on the firm. For example, SullCrom is known for giving offers to almost all the people who get CBs.

You can estimate by looking at this chart for Columbia students. Notice how SullCrom gave 35 offers out of 40 callbacks while Davis Polk gave 46 offers out of 106 callbacks. It varies.

[Anonymous User]

Linklaters ding. JS

[Anonymous User]

Linklaters (PH) ding

[Anonymous User]

Weil (JA), Pepper Hamilton (RH, Philly office), and Cadwalader (BN) callbacks.

[Anonymous User]

Ropes in Ny?

[Anonymous User]

Hughes Hubbard, Ding (CM)
Dentons US, Callback (JB)

How did you hear from Hughes Hubbard? email? (I'm asking because it seems like they've been doing snail mail dings for the past couple years)

[Anonymous User]

Hughes Hubbard, Ding (CM)
Dentons US, Callback (JB)

How did you hear from Hughes Hubbard? email? (I'm asking because it seems like they've been doing snail mail dings for the past couple years)

Snail mail

[Anonymous User]

Hughes Hubbard, Ding (CM)
Dentons US, Callback (JB)

How did you hear from Hughes Hubbard? email? (I'm asking because it seems like they've been doing snail mail dings for the past couple years)

Snail mail

That was really quick...

[Anonymous User]

5 rejections so far, silence from the rest.

New information: Milbank (Tues email ding) and Bryan Cave (snail mail today)

Anybody hear anything from Richards (DE), Morris (DE), Withers (CT), Akin Gump (NY), Kirkland (NY), Herbert Smith or Young (DE)?

[spiritniffler189]

I'm sure someone has said this already but if you haven't received a callback invitation by now, start reaching out to firms you didn't have screeners with/that didn't come to AJF right away. You may get a callback invitation later but it's much harder to get a positive response from a firm in the fall than now. If anyone has questions about mass mailing feel free to PM me.

[Anonymous User]

5 rejections so far, silence from the rest.

New information: Milbank (Tues email ding) and Bryan Cave (snail mail today)

Anybody hear anything from Richards (DE), Morris (DE), Withers (CT), Akin Gump (NY), Kirkland (NY), Herbert Smith or Young (DE)?

I got a Morris CB and my friend got a Richards CB.

Anyone hear from WilmerHale (NY) or Skadden (DE) yet?

[Anonymous User]

Has anyone heard from Cahill (AZ)? Cadwalader (GB)? White & Case (EB)? King & Spalding?

Clearly I'm still waiting on a bunch of firms....

Also, I got Dentons (NY) and Foley & Lardner (Boston) callbacks via e-mail yesterday.