Mass Mail Interview Response Time? Forum

[mths]

Email ding from Loeb & Loeb NY today. Applied about 2-3 weeks ago now. MVP top 15%

email ding from LA office about 5 days after submission, HLS top third/SoCal native

lol someone's not hiring this year

[Anonymous User]

Email ding from Loeb & Loeb NY today. Applied about 2-3 weeks ago now. MVP top 15%

email ding from LA office about 5 days after submission, HLS top third/SoCal native

lol someone's not hiring this year

Loeb hasn't had a summer program in NY since at least 2009 (and probably before 2009/maybe never, since offers for 2009 would have been given out pre-crash).

LA has hired two SAs consistently every year, though.

[Anonymous User]

Top 5% at a T25. Law Review. Dings this week at Debevoise (email) and Simpson Thacher (email).

[Anonymous User]

auto-reject by Jenner & Block less than 48 hours after I applied. Just glad for feedback at this point - i've barely heard a peep from the other 50 mass mails I've sent out over the last month.

top 20% at T14, secondary journal

[Anonymous User]

Sent applications ~2 weeks ago. Medianish, lower T14. Secondary journal. Work experience.

So far:
Email ding from Loeb & Loeb today.
Email dings from Patterson Belknap, Davies Ward, this week.
Hard copy dings from Boies Schiller and Covington & Burling this week.
Email ding from Patton Boggs last week.

Silence otherwise. Including from Jenner & Block.

[Anonymous User]

Hard copy dings from Boies Schiller and Covington & Burling this week.

Which Covington office? I sent something to Covington NYC a couple weeks ago, but still complete radio silence.

[Anonymous User]

If an interview consists of meetings with 4 attorneys and then lunch over 3+ hours, is it safe to call it a callback interview? That would make 3 callbacks so far, 2 as a result of good screeners and 1 being my first visit to a firm.

[sanpiero]

Any 3Ls having success mass-mailing?

[Anonymous User]

Hard copy dings from Boies Schiller and Covington & Burling this week.

Which Covington office? I sent something to Covington NYC a couple weeks ago, but still complete radio silence.

NYC

[Anonymous User]

Any 3Ls having success mass-mailing?

I haven't been rejected from more than 10 of the 60 firms I mass mailed. I consider that a success.

It's interesting to see that a lot of my dings come on the same day as 2L dings.

[jhandin]

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[Anonymous User]

Have a callback this week with a firm I really like; the recruiter spoke with me over the phone and asked what practice groups I was interested in for purposes of speaking with members from that practice, and said, "Litigation or Transactional?" I chose Transac (it's what I genuinely want to do) but the firm is 2/3 lit and 1/3 corp (maybe 75/25?). It's looking to expand its corporate practice but it is presently a lit-heavy firm.

I am considering saying that I am open-minded but am leaning towards transactional if asked by the attorneys. I am simply worried that specifying corporate will diminish my chances.

thoughts?

[Anonymous User]

I'm a 3L, and I've gotten one interview at a smaller firm (4 offices throughout country, 30-40 in my local office). I sent out about 200 letters and received a phone call from this firm just a few days after sending them out. Other than that, I've received about 20 rejections and nothing from the other firms.

[sanpiero]

Any 3Ls having success mass-mailing?

I haven't been rejected from more than 10 of the 60 firms I mass mailed. I consider that a success.

It's interesting to see that a lot of my dings come on the same day as 2L dings.

school/rank?

[Anonymous User]

Freshfields snail-mail ding.
T2 (top 5%) to MVP transfer.

[sanpiero]

I'm a 3L, and I've gotten one interview at a smaller firm (4 offices throughout country, 30-40 in my local office). I sent out about 200 letters and received a phone call from this firm just a few days after sending them out. Other than that, I've received about 20 rejections and nothing from the other firms.

congrats. as a T2 sTTTudent, i will consider my mass-mailing efforts a success if they result in even one interview.

[starchinkilt]

Cahill ding by snail mail. Wasn't a very nice letter either.

[mths]

Cahill ding by snail mail. Wasn't a very nice letter either.

lol! what do you mean not a nice letter?

[starchinkilt]

Cahill ding by snail mail. Wasn't a very nice letter either.

lol! what do you mean not a nice letter?

Instead of the usual thanks for your interest but we are unable to interview you blah blah, it pretty much said I don't come close to meeting the high standards necessary to get an interview

[stratocophic]

Cahill ding by snail mail. Wasn't a very nice letter either.

lol! what do you mean not a nice letter?

Instead of the usual thanks for your interest but we are unable to interview you blah blah, it pretty much said I don't come close to meeting the high standards necessary to get an interview

Thank God somebody's still honest. Pretty sick of the phrase "While we were impressed with your background and qualifications." not falling for it

[Anonymous User]

Cahill ding by snail mail. Wasn't a very nice letter either.

lol! what do you mean not a nice letter?

Instead of the usual thanks for your interest but we are unable to interview you blah blah, it pretty much said I don't come close to meeting the high standards necessary to get an interview

Cahill is very, very no-bullshit from my experience. I think that offers are going out now, and I'm sort of doubting that I would get one now, but I loved how straightforward and direct they were about everything. They're not the type to force a smile and tell you what you want to hear.

[starchinkilt]

Cahill ding by snail mail. Wasn't a very nice letter either.

lol! what do you mean not a nice letter?

Instead of the usual thanks for your interest but we are unable to interview you blah blah, it pretty much said I don't come close to meeting the high standards necessary to get an interview

Cahill is very, very no-bullshit from my experience. I think that offers are going out now, and I'm sort of doubting that I would get one now, but I loved how straightforward and direct they were about everything. They're not the type to force a smile and tell you what you want to hear.

Yeah, it was refreshing to finally see a firm be straightforward. When I met with another firm's recruiting coordinator, he forced out a cheshire cat smile for 15 straight minutes and it was awkward as fuck.

[Anonymous User]

Finally a response! Sent about 35 targeted letters about 2 weeks ago.

Ding from Archer & Grenier snail mail today.

Fordham Student - top 15% LR.

[Anonymous User]

Finally a response! Sent about 35 targeted letters about 2 weeks ago.

Ding from Archer & Grenier snail mail today.

Fordham Student - top 15% LR.

Not sure exactly what that firm is looking for. Dinged as well. Top 10% at T25 with VERY strong NJ ties

[Anonymous User]

Finally a response! Sent about 35 targeted letters about 2 weeks ago.

Ding from Archer & Grenier snail mail today.

Fordham Student - top 15% LR.

Assuming this is the Haddonfield office? They're doing OCI at the local schools (at least mine), so they might just be filling their class size from that. I have an interview with them - T2 student, top 15% secondary, strong Philly ties.