Columbia Law WIP/EIP Jan 2021 Forum

[Anonymous User]

What has your timeline been between invitation for a callback and earliest slot available for a callback?

[Anonymous User]

What has your timeline been between invitation for a callback and earliest slot available for a callback?

It's varied for me. Quickest was fewer than 24 hours between callback invitation and actual callback. Longest I've seen so far was about 2 weeks.

[Anonymous User]

What has your timeline been between invitation for a callback and earliest slot available for a callback?

Mine varied from a couple of days to 1.5 weeks. My first callback was yesterday.

-Rorschach

[Anonymous User]

Wow! thanks for sharing. I heard that the deadline to accept pre-OCI offers is 2/1. Hopefully they are planning on moving super quickly with offers as we near the end of January.

[Anonymous User]

Is it standard for a CMS rejection email to hint to 3L OCI?

[Anonymous User]

Is it standard for a CMS rejection email to hint to 3L OCI?

Yes

[Anonymous User]

Is it standard for a CMS rejection email to hint to 3L OCI?

Also following. Is it common for a Paul Weiss rejection email to hint to 3L OCI? My guess is it’s a generic message?

[Anonymous User]

Have dings from any of these firms gone out already? S&C, Cleary?
Callbacks from Debevoise?

[Anonymous User]

Have dings from any of these firms gone out already? S&C, Cleary?
Callbacks from Debevoise?

Debevoise has sent out callbacks. Personally have not been dinged (nor callback) from S&C or Cleary

[Anonymous User]

Any Latham offers?

[Anonymous User]

Any Latham offers?

Yes- not NY or DC though

[Anonymous User]

Any Latham offers?

Also curious to know if Latham dings after CBs or just does not respond? (interviewed with them pre-oci)

[Anonymous User]

Have any Quinn offers gone out?

[Anonymous User]

CSM offer at end of CB.

Congrats!! May I ask if there was a lunch break during your interview, or a virtual lunch conversation with associates, or something else? Have one coming up soon but they didn't provide any logistical information and was wondering. Thank you!

Not the original poster but also went through process and same result. CSM doesn't have set schedules so things may differ between candidates and may also change even during the day. There's a meeting with 2 associates during lunch hour but then you get a proper 1-hour break to actually eat lunch before your next session ($35 Uber eats coupon). My day in total was with 4 partners and 3 associates -- mostly 45min sessions but a couple 30min ones in the end. You will likely meet with the hiring partner at the end of the day and hopefully you will get good news. Though I have been told that sometimes they just won't give offers on the spot because they couldn't gather all the lawyers' recs that quickly so don't stress.

[Anonymous User]

CSM offer at end of CB.

Congrats!! May I ask if there was a lunch break during your interview, or a virtual lunch conversation with associates, or something else? Have one coming up soon but they didn't provide any logistical information and was wondering. Thank you!

Not the original poster but also went through process and same result. CSM doesn't have set schedules so things may differ between candidates and may also change even during the day. There's a meeting with 2 associates during lunch hour but then you get a proper 1-hour break to actually eat lunch before your next session ($35 Uber eats coupon). My day in total was with 4 partners and 3 associates -- mostly 45min sessions but a couple 30min ones in the end. You will likely meet with the hiring partner at the end of the day and hopefully you will get good news. Though I have been told that sometimes they just won't give offers on the spot because they couldn't gather all the lawyers' recs that quickly so don't stress.

Thanks for the info! Was this from previous years or this year? If this year, was this over Zoom or some other platform?

[Anonymous User]

CSM offer at end of CB.

Congrats!! May I ask if there was a lunch break during your interview, or a virtual lunch conversation with associates, or something else? Have one coming up soon but they didn't provide any logistical information and was wondering. Thank you!

Not the original poster but also went through process and same result. CSM doesn't have set schedules so things may differ between candidates and may also change even during the day. There's a meeting with 2 associates during lunch hour but then you get a proper 1-hour break to actually eat lunch before your next session ($35 Uber eats coupon). My day in total was with 4 partners and 3 associates -- mostly 45min sessions but a couple 30min ones in the end. You will likely meet with the hiring partner at the end of the day and hopefully you will get good news. Though I have been told that sometimes they just won't give offers on the spot because they couldn't gather all the lawyers' recs that quickly so don't stress.

Thanks for the info! Was this from previous years or this year? If this year, was this over Zoom or some other platform?

This year. It was on FloRecruit and you should get a roster with at least some lawyers the night before your interview. Good luck!

[Anonymous User]

CSM offer at end of CB.

Congrats!! May I ask if there was a lunch break during your interview, or a virtual lunch conversation with associates, or something else? Have one coming up soon but they didn't provide any logistical information and was wondering. Thank you!

Not the original poster but also went through process and same result. CSM doesn't have set schedules so things may differ between candidates and may also change even during the day. There's a meeting with 2 associates during lunch hour but then you get a proper 1-hour break to actually eat lunch before your next session ($35 Uber eats coupon). My day in total was with 4 partners and 3 associates -- mostly 45min sessions but a couple 30min ones in the end. You will likely meet with the hiring partner at the end of the day and hopefully you will get good news. Though I have been told that sometimes they just won't give offers on the spot because they couldn't gather all the lawyers' recs that quickly so don't stress.

Thanks for the info! Was this from previous years or this year? If this year, was this over Zoom or some other platform?

This year. It was on FloRecruit and you should get a roster with at least some lawyers the night before your interview. Good luck!

for csm, does anyone know if it's an automatic ding if you didn't meet with the hiring partner?

[Anonymous User]

S&C offer via phone (CB yesterday).

Any other S&C offers? I’m curious how universal the one-day turnaround is

[Anonymous User]

Anyone still waiting to hear from DPW post CB? Wondering if this means ding or whether there’s some notion of a waitlist

[Anonymous User]

Anyone still waiting to hear from DPW post CB? Wondering if this means ding or whether there’s some notion of a waitlist

also waiting, CB tues :/

[Anonymous User]

S&C offer via phone (CB yesterday).

Any other S&C offers? I’m curious how universal the one-day turnaround is

Got an offer the morning after CB

[Anonymous User]

Anyone still waiting to hear from DPW post CB? Wondering if this means ding or whether there’s some notion of a waitlist

also waiting, CB tues :/

I had my CB Tuesday (for NY) and the head recruiter said to expect to wait "about a week." Hopefully the turnaround is quicker though.

[Anonymous User]

CSM offer at end of CB.

Did you do your CB in business casual?

[Anonymous User]

S&C offer just now. CB yesterday AM

[Anonymous User]

Wow! thanks for sharing. I heard that the deadline to accept pre-OCI offers is 2/1. Hopefully they are planning on moving super quickly with offers as we near the end of January.

Weil's pre OCI offers expire on on 1/25 and they will not budge on extensions. Disappointing to say the least