USC / UCLA OCI 2012 Forum

[Anonymous User]

Anyone know of any Bryan Cave offers being extended to anyone?

yes

[Anonymous User]

USC: Got a ding after screener from Rutan and Tucker today. Whatever, the interviewer was having a meltdown and was on his phone the whole time

HAHA. I probably interviewed shortly after you because he spent 5 minutes talking about said meltdown.

Also, I haven't heard from Morgan Lewis, K&L Gates, and Stroock still. I'm guessing they just haven't sent the rejections out or something.

I have still not heard a peep from 7 firms after the initial screener, K&L Gates (Irvine) being one of them.

Hm, yeah, waiting on that same Irvine office. I'm thinking they just haven't gotten around to dinging us.

Got the rejection in the mail today.

[Anonymous User]

Has anyone gotten a rejection email or snail mail from Milbank LA (post CB)?

[Anonymous User]

Has anybody heard anything from Foley (LA)? I have yet to hear back after the screener. Assuming it's a ding, but what the hell is taking them so long?

[Anonymous User]

Has anybody heard anything from Foley (LA)? I have yet to hear back after the screener. Assuming it's a ding, but what the hell is taking them so long?

Email ding this morning

[Anonymous User]

Was contacted today by Gordon & Rees (SD office) for a skype/video conference initial interview (applied via resume collect).

[Anonymous User]

Still haven't heard anything from 5 firms after screener. I'm assuming they are dings, but does anybody know if it's typical for some firms to just not respond at all? It's been a month already.

[Anonymous User]

I'm in a similar situation, assuming they are dings. Any information for past years?

[Anonymous User]

I hope the rest of you fare better than I did. I got dings from both of my callbacks, and I don't have much of anything lined up with big firms except waiting to hear back from mass mailers and two screeners from over a month ago. I did another mock interview with OCS to see if I was doing anything wrong, but they didn't see anything major. Law school just became a much worse investment.

I have a 3.6 at UCLA with two years work experience. I would advise other people to not say they are primarily interested in transactional work, as that is one thing I did that I am almost certain decreased my chances. I must have done other things to hurt my chances too, I just don't know what they were, and neither firm responded when I asked for feedback after I was dinged. Best of luck to everyone else!

[Anonymous User]

Ask CSO to get in touch with the firm. Firms are much more willing to share that information with CSO then with you directly.

[Anonymous User]

I hope the rest of you fare better than I did. I got dings from both of my callbacks, and I don't have much of anything lined up with big firms except waiting to hear back from mass mailers and two screeners from over a month ago. I did another mock interview with OCS to see if I was doing anything wrong, but they didn't see anything major. Law school just became a much worse investment.

I have a 3.6 at UCLA with two years work experience. I would advise other people to not say they are primarily interested in transactional work, as that is one thing I did that I am almost certain decreased my chances. I must have done other things to hurt my chances too, I just don't know what they were, and neither firm responded when I asked for feedback after I was dinged. Best of luck to everyone else!

It could be nothing in particular that you "did." It's just a really sluggish market right now.

[Anonymous User]

I hope the rest of you fare better than I did. I got dings from both of my callbacks, and I don't have much of anything lined up with big firms except waiting to hear back from mass mailers and two screeners from over a month ago. I did another mock interview with OCS to see if I was doing anything wrong, but they didn't see anything major. Law school just became a much worse investment.

I have a 3.6 at UCLA with two years work experience. I would advise other people to not say they are primarily interested in transactional work, as that is one thing I did that I am almost certain decreased my chances. I must have done other things to hurt my chances too, I just don't know what they were, and neither firm responded when I asked for feedback after I was dinged. Best of luck to everyone else!

It could be nothing in particular that you "did." It's just a really sluggish market right now.

This. Do you know how big the class sizes were? Did you just target LA? Mass mail more. I've had some success with it.

[Anonymous User]

I hope the rest of you fare better than I did. I got dings from both of my callbacks, and I don't have much of anything lined up with big firms except waiting to hear back from mass mailers and two screeners from over a month ago. I did another mock interview with OCS to see if I was doing anything wrong, but they didn't see anything major. Law school just became a much worse investment.

I have a 3.6 at UCLA with two years work experience. I would advise other people to not say they are primarily interested in transactional work, as that is one thing I did that I am almost certain decreased my chances. I must have done other things to hurt my chances too, I just don't know what they were, and neither firm responded when I asked for feedback after I was dinged. Best of luck to everyone else!

I'm sorry to hear that! I am primarily interested in transactional work too but some of my screeners were with only litigation offices and at the end of the day, I wanted A job so I practiced having things to say about lit that I liked. I only picked a handful of firms that I knew were strong in Corp in LA where I said I was leaning transactional but I was open to both.

Maybe you can try to hit up some of the smaller more regional firms (CA only) (especially if you are from LA/OC). Try to contact anyone you know that is an attorney or knows any partners and ask them to introduce you?

Good luck.

[Anonymous User]

rutan & tucker snail mail ding post screener. fuck it

[Anonymous User]

Has anyone who had a CB with Stradling heard back?

[Anonymous User]

no word on a stradling CB, now more than 10 days out. Likely going to accept another offer anyway on Monday, but thought I would share since Stradling seems to be pretty slow, no confirmed offers

[Anonymous User]

no word on a stradling CB, now more than 10 days out. Likely going to accept another offer anyway on Monday, but thought I would share since Stradling seems to be pretty slow, no confirmed offers

if you don't mind. which firm's offer are you planning on accepting?

[Anonymous User]

Anybody with a Pillsbury CB heard back yet?

[Anonymous User]

Well, I guess OCI is pretty much done. I have a feeling this year was more competitive that last year.

[Anonymous User]

I hope the rest of you fare better than I did. I got dings from both of my callbacks, and I don't have much of anything lined up with big firms except waiting to hear back from mass mailers and two screeners from over a month ago. I did another mock interview with OCS to see if I was doing anything wrong, but they didn't see anything major. Law school just became a much worse investment.

I have a 3.6 at UCLA with two years work experience. I would advise other people to not say they are primarily interested in transactional work, as that is one thing I did that I am almost certain decreased my chances. I must have done other things to hurt my chances too, I just don't know what they were, and neither firm responded when I asked for feedback after I was dinged. Best of luck to everyone else!

I'm sorry to hear that! I am primarily interested in transactional work too but some of my screeners were with only litigation offices and at the end of the day, I wanted A job so I practiced having things to say about lit that I liked. I only picked a handful of firms that I knew were strong in Corp in LA where I said I was leaning transactional but I was open to both.

Maybe you can try to hit up some of the smaller more regional firms (CA only) (especially if you are from LA/OC). Try to contact anyone you know that is an attorney or knows any partners and ask them to introduce you?

Good luck.

I do think the transactional focus can be a negative right now. I'm at a midwest T-30 trying to get back to SoCal and after receiving a few rejections post call back was able to get a recruiter to share that they really did like me, but were only hiring 2 associates for transactional compared to 8 for litigation, ditto at a second firm from the hiring partner. I ended up landing another firm which has me slated as transactional but liked that I was at least somewhat open to the litigation side. Something that would have normally been an awful answer to Transactional or Litigation? me being slightly flip-floppy actually worked out in my case.

[Anonymous User]

Any word on offers from Holland and Knight (LA)?

[Anonymous User]

Any word on offers from Holland and Knight (LA)?

I haven't heard a peep from them since my screener at OCI. But I've already accepted another offer. so fuck'em. USC.

[JJDancer]

Any word on offers from Holland and Knight (LA)?

They only take 1-2 people and I heard they gave out offers really late last year..

[Lasers]

has anyone been dinged by morgan lewis/stroock post-screener yet?

haha, it's ridiculous how long it has been.

[Anonymous User]

has anyone been dinged by morgan lewis/stroock post-screener yet?

haha, it's ridiculous how long it has been.

I don't know, but I've been dinged post cb.