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Spending the summer for the offer.
Hi all,
I've received a summer at my first choice firm for Summer 2015. With months until summer, what advice is out there w/r/t getting an offer to return post-graduation or post-clerkship?
Show up each day, work hard, and make an impression? Is there much more to it than that?
I've received a summer at my first choice firm for Summer 2015. With months until summer, what advice is out there w/r/t getting an offer to return post-graduation or post-clerkship?
Show up each day, work hard, and make an impression? Is there much more to it than that?
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Re: Spending the summer for the offer.
Be personable, go to every event, listen, bill double your time, makes jokes at the most senior partner, be smart, close your door if you are going to sleep, make the coffee in the morning, etc.
- Old Gregg
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Re: Spending the summer for the offer.
read the many threads that have already been posted about this.
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Re: Spending the summer for the offer.
nopeMrProhibition wrote:Be personable, go to every event, listen,bill double your time, makes jokes at the most senior partner, be smart, close your door if you are going to sleep, make the coffee in the morning, etc.
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Re: Spending the summer for the offer.
I mean he put the "etc." there as if the threadstarter was smart enough to figure it out, but he did start this thread without even searching, so maybe he isn't....hichvichwoh wrote:nopeMrProhibition wrote:Be personable, go to every event, listen,bill double your time, makes jokes at the most senior partner, be smart, close your door if you are going to sleep, make the coffee in the morning, etc.
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- jbagelboy
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Re: Spending the summer for the offer.
why worry about this now? you're working their either way, enjoy 2L. Third week of may start thinking about how not to fuck up.
(but just in case someone sees this down the road, don't double bill your time as a summer associate.. its very unlikely any of your hours will even ever reach the client, so entering twice the number of irrelevant hours into the timekeeping system will just make you seem like 1) a try-hard idiot or worse, 2) dishonest)
(but just in case someone sees this down the road, don't double bill your time as a summer associate.. its very unlikely any of your hours will even ever reach the client, so entering twice the number of irrelevant hours into the timekeeping system will just make you seem like 1) a try-hard idiot or worse, 2) dishonest)
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Re: Spending the summer for the offer.
Chill out. If you are worried about a no offer at this point, you are going to be a mess by the time you start, and that could be bad news. Skill-wise, hit up your Lexis and Westlaw reps for classes as often as possible -- especially on things like secondary sources, statutory history and other more obscure sources. Random PITA research projects are great SA assignments because attorneys don't want to be bothered with remembering how to find XYZ database and Westlaw Next has definite limitations for some types of research.
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Re: Spending the summer for the offer.
I was under the impression corporate folk never have to deal with westlaw again; am I wrong?TooOld4This wrote:Chill out. If you are worried about a no offer at this point, you are going to be a mess by the time you start, and that could be bad news. Skill-wise, hit up your Lexis and Westlaw reps for classes as often as possible -- especially on things like secondary sources, statutory history and other more obscure sources. Random PITA research projects are great SA assignments because attorneys don't want to be bothered with remembering how to find XYZ database and Westlaw Next has definite limitations for some types of research.
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Re: Spending the summer for the offer.
As an attorney, pretty much true. It can be hard to really get SAs involved in corporate work, though, so it is not unheard of to actually farm out research projects to them to satisfy idle curiosity about how courts might interpret xyz if it goes to lit some day.sinfiery wrote:I was under the impression corporate folk never have to deal with westlaw again; am I wrong?TooOld4This wrote:Chill out. If you are worried about a no offer at this point, you are going to be a mess by the time you start, and that could be bad news. Skill-wise, hit up your Lexis and Westlaw reps for classes as often as possible -- especially on things like secondary sources, statutory history and other more obscure sources. Random PITA research projects are great SA assignments because attorneys don't want to be bothered with remembering how to find XYZ database and Westlaw Next has definite limitations for some types of research.
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Re: Spending the summer for the offer.
avoid bankruptcy work if you want to avoid wexis, friend