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Considering splitting. General firm that only allows you to do corp or lit (and I'd want to do lit with them) in NY and a different general firm's satellite office in London (that only allows corporate). I'd like to try both corp and lit, and I'd like to try both NY and London, and I'm curious to see what life is like in both firms...so it seems ideal for me. But afraid of carving myself a crack and receiving an offer from neither firm as a result.

Anyone with experience? Surely TLS has some wisdom here.

Anonymous User wrote:Considering splitting. General firm that only allows you to do corp or lit (and I'd want to do lit with them) in NY and a different general firm's satellite office in London (that only allows corporate). I'd like to try both corp and lit, and I'd like to try both NY and London, and I'm curious to see what life is like in both firms...so it seems ideal for me. But afraid of carving myself a crack and receiving an offer from neither firm as a result.

Anyone with experience? Surely TLS has some wisdom here.

Interested as well.

I'm considering doing this but concerned about it for the same reason you are,,

There used to be some guy around here named Radz lol or something (AKA Griz I think?) who IIRC had stellar credentials and managed to get no offered by 2 firms. Could have been work product/typical TLS personality, but definitely raises concerns in my mind.

IMHO, I think that I will only do it if at least one of the firms is a 100% offer firm. You really have nothing to worry about at 100% firms. But, splitting between two 70% firms might not be the best idea. OTOH, statistically, if it didn't hurt your chances, taking two 75% firms gives you a 91% shot at an offer from at least one of them.

Tough decision, look forward to further input as well

If one manage to work at firm 2 for August after the end of summer associate program of firm 1, is that considered a "split"?

Bumping this. One firm would be a v10 DC branch, traditional 100%; other is well-regarded lit boutique with 80-90% historical (from what I've heard/seen on NALP). I prefer the latter but the fact that they regularly cull a few members of their SA class worries me. Does splitting increases chances of being in that 10-20%?

Anonymous User wrote:Bumping this. One firm would be a v10 DC branch, traditional 100%; other is well-regarded lit boutique with 80-90% historical (from what I've heard/seen on NALP). I prefer the latter but the fact that they regularly cull a few members of their SA class worries me. Does splitting increases chances of being in that 10-20%?

If you have the 100% firm's offer in your back pocket, what's the downside of splitting with the other one?

I guess I'm confused as to why you would even consider not splitting

BigZuck wrote:

Anonymous User wrote:Bumping this. One firm would be a v10 DC branch, traditional 100%; other is well-regarded lit boutique with 80-90% historical (from what I've heard/seen on NALP). I prefer the latter but the fact that they regularly cull a few members of their SA class worries me. Does splitting increases chances of being in that 10-20%?

If you have the 100% firm's offer in your back pocket, what's the downside of splitting with the other one?

I guess I'm confused as to why you would even consider not splitting

Yea, that was kind of my thought. But my worry was just that because I like the latter one better and think I'd fit in better as an actual associate, splitting might reduce my chance of getting the offer to return at the non-100% firm. Is that something I should consider? I'm not sure if there's anything useful I can hear - I mean, I know I'd get less facetime with the people making the offer decision were I to split, so that's an obvious disadvantage - other than perhaps if anyone had experience with this (either on the SA side or on the side of making offer decisions).

100% offer firms still give out cold offers. There is always something to worry about.

At the same time, you are 2 years from starting work. It's unlikely to happen to you, but any firm could go belly up (or decide that they can no longer afford to be a 100% offer firm) in 2 years. Going to two firms gives you some protection against that.