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I was wondering whether I should ask for a letter of reference from my current employer before I leave for school. I assume firms will contact prior employers, but do they expect letters of recommendation or anything like that?


Thanks!

No. I have never heard of a firm requesting a letter of recommendation. You may need these for clerkships, but in that case it would have to be from law school professors, not employers.

At the very most a firm may ask for a list of references (i.e., so they can call them up and chat) but even this is pretty rare.

No. And very few firms actually even call references from a list if provided.

Thank God. I was fired unjustly and have decided it's not worth the mess to try and fix it since school starts so soon. I was worrying about that. As it stands I can say simply that the position ended because I was heading back to school.

(note. not OP)

Do you think it would be worth it to have the firm I worked for this summer do a quick letter of recommendation to give at the beginning of my interview?

I had 1 firm do that.

I don't think, you should be handing out recommendations at your interview, but you should be ready to answer questions like

What do you like most at your current job?....

Yea, that sounds about right. Thanks.