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Posted: **Mon Jul 07, 2014 8:15 pm**

I am in the top 1/3 at GULC with a 3.56 GPA (probably closer to 20% but we are not given this statistic). K-JD.

Please critique my bidlist. I'm particularly interested in Energy/environment and corporate transactional.

I would appreciate some quick criticisms since the deadline close.

1. Latham NY
2. Akin Gump DC
3. Skadden NY
4. Jones Day DC
5. Milbank Tweed NY
6. Kirkland & Ellis NY
7. Weil Gotshal NY
8. Freshfields NY
9. Clifford Chance NY
10. Chadbourne Parke NY
11. Steptoe DC
12. Linklaters
13. Cahill Gordon NY
14. Allen Overy NY
15. Proskauer Rose NY
16. Baker Botts DC
17. Cadwalader NY
18. O'Melveny Myers DC
19. Kirland & Ellis DC
20. Fried Frank NY
21. Shearman Sterling NY
22. Boies (Miami)
23. Willkie Farr NY
24. Weil Gotshal DC
25. White & Case NY/DC
26. Ropes & Gray NY
27. Debevoise NY
28. Simpson Thacher NY
29. Dechert DC
30. Fried Frank DC
31. Milbank Tweed DC
32. hogan lovells NY/Miami
33. Wiley Rein DC
34. Venable DC
35. WilmerHale NY
36. Morrison Foerster DC
37. McDermott DC
38. Bingham McCutcheon DC
39. Davis Polk NY
40. Arent Fox DC
41. Cadwalader DC
42. Greenberg Traurig Miami
43. Paul Hastings NY
44. Goodwin Procter NY
45. Vinson Elkins DC
46. Paul Weiss NY

Posted: **Tue Jul 08, 2014 1:01 am**

Anonymous User wrote:I am in the top 1/3 at GULC with a 3.56 GPA (probably closer to 20% but we are not given this statistic). K-JD.

Please critique my bidlist. I'm particularly interested in Energy/environment and corporate transactional.

I would appreciate some quick criticisms since the deadline close.

1. Latham NY
2. Akin Gump DC
3. Skadden NY
4. Jones Day DC
5. Milbank Tweed NY
6. Kirkland & Ellis NY
7. Weil Gotshal NY
8. Freshfields NY
9. Clifford Chance NY
10. Chadbourne Parke NY
11. Steptoe DC
12. Linklaters
13. Cahill Gordon NY
14. Allen Overy NY
15. Proskauer Rose NY
16. Baker Botts DC
17. Cadwalader NY
18. O'Melveny Myers DC
19. Kirland & Ellis DC
20. Fried Frank NY
21. Shearman Sterling NY
22. Boies (Miami)
23. Willkie Farr NY
24. Weil Gotshal DC
25. White & Case NY/DC
26. Ropes & Gray NY
27. Debevoise NY
28. Simpson Thacher NY
29. Dechert DC
30. Fried Frank DC
31. Milbank Tweed DC
32. Hogan Lovells NY/Miami
33. Wiley Rein DC
34. Venable DC
35. WilmerHale NY
36. Morrison Foerster DC
37. McDermott DC
38. Bingham McCutcheon DC
39. Davis Polk NY
40. Arent Fox DC
41. Cadwalader DC
42. Greenberg Traurig Miami
43. Paul Hastings NY
44. Goodwin Procter NY
45. Vinson Elkins DC
46. Paul Weiss NY

I don't think you have a realistic chance of getting a lottery interview with any DC office below Steptoe, and you likely won't even get them. I would move those DC firms down and move the large SA class NY offices with lots of interview slots up. Realistically, I would be surprised if you got an NYC office below 15, or a DC office below 10.

Do you have international experience and/or languages? It is my impression that Magic Circle firms like this kind of stuff. I also have doubts A&O will be available at #14.

I'd consider moving Cadwalader, Shearman, Willkie, and Proskauer up as well, as I don't think you'll get them through lottery where they are now. I have no idea if you'll get many preselects (even though you're comfortable above a lot of medians), so be prepared to mass mail all the firms in your bidlist that you don't get an interview at as soon as the lottery/preselect results come out.

Finally, I would fill out the bottom of your bidlist with all the Miami firms, and hope you get preselected. Alternatively, try bidding them somewhere between 15-25 and see if you can get them through lottery, since you likely won't get DC/NYC offices in that range.

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