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I just finished mine and got an offer to be a summer in 2015. Is this the norm? My expectation was that the offer would be full-time and they'd tell me I'd have I preserve. Conceivably only having to preserve could still be the situation I'm in, but the recruiter hasn't gotten back to me yet.

Anonymous User wrote:I just finished mine and got an offer to be a summer in 2015. Is this the norm? My expectation was that the offer would be full-time and they'd tell me I'd have I preserve. Conceivably only having to preserve could still be the situation I'm in, but the recruiter hasn't gotten back to me yet.

Mine gave me quite a big extension to work longer this summer, but I had my end-of-summer the other day. They told me they had checked firm policy to see if they could give me a full-time offer now, but were told they'd have to wait until the end of next summer, so I think that's probably the norm. I have never heard of a 1L SA resulting in a full time offer at the end of that summer, actually.

I have never heard of someone getting fulltime off a 1L SA. I just finished mine and got invited to come back/split and they were saying stuff along the lines of "keep doing what you are doing and you will get an offer next summer."

I was a 1L summer associate last summer. You get offer to return for 2L summer and not a full time offer.

If you like the firm, split during your 2L summer. I would wait until you go through OCI before making a decision to accept. Per NALP rules, you have until November 1st to decide, since you summered there during 1L summer.

It definitely happens, but might not be the norm. Some firms give an offer for full time employment after 1L year. To hold the offer open, you just have to return 2L summer for x number of weeks.