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I recently received an offer from one of the Texas Big 3. Acceptance would require me to commit to five weeks at the beginning of the summer as a 2L as well. Wouldn't this prevent me from working with any other first-half firm? If that's the case, it seems like I'm essentially accepting an offer to work for this firm (assuming I'm not no-offered one of the summers), which is a little frightening. Or are first half firms willing to make exceptions for 2Ls constrained by this policy?

If this is referring to BB, they must have changed their policy. Last year if you accepted as a 1L you just had to come back for 4 weeks during 2L summer, and I'm pretty sure you could do that second half.

Yeah that's what I had been expecting. Clearly specifies fives weeks at the beginning of the summer.

Anonymous User wrote:I recently received an offer from one of the Texas Big 3. Acceptance would require me to commit to five weeks at the beginning of the summer as a 2L as well. Wouldn't this prevent me from working with any other first-half firm? If that's the case, it seems like I'm essentially accepting an offer to work for this firm (assuming I'm not no-offered one of the summers), which is a little frightening. Or are first half firms willing to make exceptions for 2Ls constrained by this policy?

Different person, same situation. Honestly, I just accepted not really worrying about the specific language just because I had heard so much about the firm allowing summers to fulfill their requirement in the 2nd half. Can any 1L summers from last year chime in?

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Yeah I'm worried this is something they changed this year because people ended up choosing a different firm.

I did two summers at big 3 firms. It sounds like a shift from previous years. I wouldn't expect another big 3 firm to accommodate that next summer.

If you don't care about renewing your offer then you don't have to go back if they won't accommodate your other summer offers.