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Ropes & Gray NY?

Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 11:16 pm
by Anonymous User
Any offers or dings to report? How long has it been taking people to hear back from them? I did a callback recently and am wondering if its time to get worried even though I thought it went very welll...

Re: Ropes & Gray NY?

Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 7:24 am
by Anonymous User
Same here. It appears they are taking their time.

Re: Ropes & Gray NY?

Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 6:48 pm
by Anonymous User
so nothing huh?

Re: Ropes & Gray NY?

Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 11:09 pm
by Anonymous User
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Re: Ropes & Gray NY?

Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 5:45 pm
by Anonymous User
any news today?

Re: Ropes & Gray NY?

Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 5:55 pm
by Anonymous User
ahh, I really want an offer from R&G.

Re: Ropes & Gray NY?

Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 11:23 am
by nyf
I got an offer (NY office) yesterday. Interviewed 9/16.

Re: Ropes & Gray NY?

Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 3:10 pm
by Anonymous User
Any offers today?

Re: Ropes & Gray NY?

Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 6:15 pm
by Anonymous User
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Re: Ropes & Gray NY?

Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 6:50 pm
by Anonymous User
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Re: Ropes & Gray NY?

Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 2:34 pm
by Anonymous User
anything today?

Re: Ropes & Gray NY?

Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 8:33 pm
by Anonymous User
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Re: Ropes & Gray NY?

Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 11:12 am
by Anonymous User
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Re: Ropes & Gray NY?

Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 11:16 am
by Anonymous User
Has anyone received an email inquiring about your interest, other offers, etc.?

Re: Ropes & Gray NY?

Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 11:13 pm
by Anonymous User
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Re: Ropes & Gray NY?

Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2010 10:10 am
by Anonymous User
Has anyone accepted here? Know anything about class size? Are they still making offers or did they just never make any?

Re: Ropes & Gray NY?

Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2010 10:19 am
by Anonymous User
At least three "hold" candidates at my school got offers in early October. None accepted.

Re: Ropes & Gray NY?

Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2010 10:27 am
by pasteurizedmilk
I get the feeling R&G NY is in trouble.

Re: Ropes & Gray NY?

Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2010 10:41 am
by Anonymous User
pasteurizedmilk wrote:I get the feeling R&G NY is in trouble.
By "trouble" do you mean something other than a minor recruiting hiccup? What's wrong with the firm?

Re: Ropes & Gray NY?

Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2010 4:57 pm
by Anonymous User
Anonymous User wrote:
pasteurizedmilk wrote:I get the feeling R&G NY is in trouble.
By "trouble" do you mean something other than a minor recruiting hiccup? What's wrong with the firm?
Been seeing some of this across the internet. I'd love to hear anyone provide a specific anecdote or even specific speculation of what sort of trouble they're in.

Re: Ropes & Gray NY?

Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 10:11 pm
by Anonymous User
I really would love to hear what people think is wrong with Ropes and Gray NY. No one has substantiated a single claim. I know many people at my school (CCN) who got offers and many who took them. I think their recruiting is just done (or near done). The summer class is 30-35. Just bc you have not gotten an offer from them does not mean that something is wrong...

Re: Ropes & Gray NY?

Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 10:28 am
by Anonymous User
I really would love to hear what people think is wrong with Ropes and Gray NY. No one has substantiated a single claim. I know many people at my school (CCN) who got offers and many who took them. I think their recruiting is just done (or near done). The summer class is 30-35. Just bc you have not gotten an offer from them does not mean that something is wrong...
You can't assume that lack of evidence for a contrary position demonstrably proves the position you uphold. I personally can say I've heard bad information from insiders. I would say it here, but at this point in the game anonymous posting doesn't help much. I could risk outing the insider.

Anyways, if Ropes NY is the best option you have, take it. But there are many other firms in NYC that are worth taking above it if you have the option.

Re: Ropes & Gray NY?

Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 10:52 am
by Anonymous User
Good friend of mine at the Boston office reports similar things re: NY office.

Any word on the deferalls there? Still a large backlog of incomign JAs?

Re: Ropes & Gray NY?

Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 2:09 pm
by Anonymous User
What? Saying that you also heard bad things does not change the lack of actual data on what these bad things are! I am not saying that I have proven there aren't bad things about the office, I am saying NO ONE HAS ACTUALLY IDENTIFIED A SINGLE COMPLAINT. Amazing.

Re: Ropes & Gray NY?

Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 3:40 pm
by pasteurizedmilk
Part of it is probably all the deferrals. Firms that have a lot of work aren't deferring associates. Do you know what the backlog looks like right now? I don't, but you should if you're considering an offer there.

Part of it is that the NY office (from my limited understanding, since I didn't have much interest in accepting my offer there) relies somewhat heavily on P/E, which is a bad rack to hang your hat on when there's little PE work out there right now and most of it is being sucked up by the better firms (like STB and co.)