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Summer class info is starting to be sent out, keeping it going from last year.

Last year's thread
http://www.top-law-schools.com/forums/v ... 3&t=221586

Kirkland Ellis Chicago wrote: 41 Total

Yale: 1
Harvard: 2
Stanford: 1
Columbia: 1
Chicago: 10
Penn: 1
UVA: 2
Michigan: 1
Northwestern: 13

Vanderbilt: 2
GW: 1
Notre Dame: 2
UIUC: 1
Chicago-Kent: 3

Simpson Thacher-Firmwide wrote:
NYC Office- 95 Total
Yale: 5
Harvard: 11
Stanford: 2
Columbia: 10
Chicago: 5
NYU: 10
Penn: 9
Virginia: 5
Michigan: 6
Berkeley: 2
Duke: 7
Northwestern: 4
Cornell: 3
Georgetown: 11
Vanderbilt: 1
WUSTL: 1
Fordham: 1
Seton Hall: 1
St. Johns: 1

Houston Office- 4 total
NYU: 1
Virginia: 1
Cornell: 1
Tulane: 1

LA Office- 8 Total
Penn: 2
Berkeley: 1
Duke: 1
UCLA: 4

Palo Alto Office-14 Total
Harvard: 2
Stanford: 2
Penn: 1
Berkeley: 1
Duke: 2
Northwestern: 1
Georgetown: 1
Texas: 2
Vanderbilt: 1
Santa Clara: 1

DC Office- 5 Total
Chicago: 1
Penn: 1
Duke: 1
Vanderbilt: 1
GW: 1

Latham Chicago wrote: 15 Total

Yale: 1
Harvard: 1
Chicago: 1
Virginia: 1
Michigan: 4
Northwestern: 3
Cornell: 1
Georgetown: 1
WUSTL: 1
USC: 1

Cadwalader Firmwide wrote: Harvard: 2
Columbia: 3
Chicago: 2
New York University: 5
Virginia: 2
Pennsylvania: 1
Duke: 1
Michigan: 1
Berkeley: 1
Cornell: 2
Georgetown: 2
Washington Univ. St. Louis: 1
George Washington: 2
Boston University: 1
Fordham: 3
Wake Forrest: 1
Alabama: 1
Kentucky: 1
New York Law School: 1

Not Sure: 5

Cooley wrote: NYC Office:
Harvard: 1
NYU: 2
UC Hastings: 1

San Diego Office:
Stanford: 1
Penn: 1
UC Davis: 1
San Diego: 2

D.C. Office:
Harvard: 1
Duke: 1
Richmond: 1
W&M: 1

Palo Alto Office:
Harvard: 1
Penn: 1
Berkeley: 4
UCLA: 1
Hastings: 1
UC Davis: 1
Santa Clara: 1

Los Angeles Office:
USC: 2

Boston Office:
Harvard: 1
BC: 1
BU: 1

Colorado Office:
Colorado: 1

Reston Office:
UVA: 1
BU: 1

San Francisco Office:
Harvard: 1
Stanford: 3
Berkeley: 1

Cravath wrote: 2 Yale
21 Harvard
5 Stanford
4 Uchicago
18 Columbia
12 NYU
3 Penn
2 UVA
1 UC Berkeley
3 Duke
4 Michigan
6 Northwestern
5 Cornell
3 Georgetown
2 Texas
2 WUSTL
1 GW
1 Notre Dame
1 BU
1 Fordham
1 Cardozo
1 St Johns
2 Osgoode (Canadian law school)

Gibson Dunn LA wrote: (22 total)

Yale: 1
Harvard: 1
Stanford: 2
Columbia: 3
Chicago: 1
NYU: 3
Penn: 1
UVA: 1
Michigan: 2
Duke: 2
Georgetown: 1
UCLA: 2
USC: 2

White & Case NYC wrote: Boston College: 1
Cardozo: 1
Columbia: 2
Cornell: 3
Duke: 1
Emory: 1
Fordham: 2
George Washington: 1
GULC: 3
Harvard: 4
Hofstra: 1
McGill: 1
Notre Dame: 1
NU: 1
NYU: 2
UChicago: 1
UMichigan: 1
UPenn: 1
UVA: 3
Vanderbilt: 1
William & Mary: 1
Yale: 1
Total: 34

Akin Gump DC wrote: Yale 1
Penn 1
Michigan 2
Northwestern 1
Georgetown 4
Texas 1
GW 1

Total 11

Mayer Brown DC wrote: 4 Harvard
2 Stanford
1 Yale
1 Chicago

Skadden NYC wrote: Unknown: 7
Harvard: 11
GWU: 1
Columbia: 21
Cornell: 3
Virginia: 8
Berkeley: 5
Chicago: 5
Fordham: 2
NYU: 16
Vanderbilt: 4
Brooklyn: 2
UNC: 1
Stanford: 2
Georgetown: 6
Boston: 1
Duke: 1
Penn: 2
Michigan: 1
Yale: 1
W&M: 1
McGill: 1
Texas: 1

Kirkland Ellis NY wrote: NYU:9
GULC:8
Columbia: 6
Harvard: 6
Fordham: 3
GW: 3
Michigan: 2
Notre Dame: 2
Penn: 2
Washington University: 2
Berkeley: 1
BC: 1
Cardozo: 1
Connecticut: 1
Duke: 1
Indiana-Bloomington: 1
Texas: 1
Toronto: 1
USC: 1
Yale: 1

Total: 54

Milbank LA wrote: Berkeley: 1
Georgetown: 1
Loyola Law: 1
Michigan: 1
UCI: 2
UCLA: 2
USC: 1

Paul Weiss NY wrote: Total: 132

Yale: 11
Harvard: 13
Columbia: 17
Chicago: 4
NYU: 25
Penn: 8
UVA: 1
Berkeley: 1
Michigan: 3
Northwestern: 3
Cornell: 8
GULC: 8
Texas: 1
WUSTL: 4
Boston U: 1
Fordham: 8
Brooklyn: 3
Cardozo: 2
Howard: 2
Irvine: 1
Toronto: 7
McGill: 1

Sullivan Cromwell wrote: YLS - 16
HLS - 15
CLS - 10
NYU - 10
UVA - 8
Chicago - 6
SLS - 5
Penn - 5
Toronto - 4
BU - 4
NU - 3
Duke - 3
Cornell - 3
GULC - 3
Texas - 3
USC - 3
Michigan - 2
GW - 2
UCLA - 2
Berkeley - 1
Fordham - 1
Osgoode - 1
Minnesota - 1
Vanderbilt - 1
American - 1
Howard - 1
W&L - 1
Notre Dame - 1
WUSTL - 1
OSU - 1
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Williams & Connolly wrote: Total: 37

Y—5
H—8
S—3
Col—0
Ch—0
NYU—0
P—1
Va—1
B—0
D—6
M—0
NW—1
Cor—1
G—7
UT—2
Vandy—1
GW—1

Munger Tolles wrote: Yale: 3
Stanford: 7
Harvard: 7
Columbia: 3
Chicago: 2
Berkeley: 2
Penn: 1
UCLA: 2
USC: 1
Unknown: 2

Milbank NY wrote: Yale- 1
Harvard- 4
Columbia- 3
Chicago- 1
NYU- 3
Penn- 3
UVA- 1
Cal- 1
Duke- 1
Michigan- 1
Northwestern- 1
Georgetown-3
Texas- 1
Vandy- 4
Fordham- 2
Emory- 2
Tulane- 1
New York Law- 1
Albany- 2
Unknown- 7
Total- 43

Davis Polk wrote: Yale: 12
Harvard: 27
Stanford: 8
Columbia: 22
Chicago: 2
NYU: 13
Penn: 7
Virginia: 2
Michigan: 7
Berkeley: 3
Duke: 2
Cornell: 9
Georgetown: 3


Vanderbilt: 1
George Washington: 1
Wash U: 1
Notre Dame: 1
Emory: 1
UC Davis: 1
BYU: 3
W&M: 1
W&L: 1
Cardozo: 1
BLS: 2
Howard: 1
St. John: 2
Hofstra: 1

Debevoise wrote: Yale: 4
Harvard: 11
Stanford: 4
Columbia: 17
Chicago: 2
NYU: 8
Penn: 2
Virginia: 4
Michigan: 4
Berkeley: 2
Duke: 2
Cornell: 2
Georgetown: 4


Brooklyn: 2
NYLS: 2
Fordham: 1
GW: 2
Howard 1:
Hofstra: 1
Rutgers: 1
Seton Hall: 1
St. John's: 1

Wachtell wrote: Yale: 7
Columbia: 5
Harvard: 4
Penn: 3 (1 1L)
NYU: 3 (1 1L)
Stanford: 2
Chicago: 2
Berkeley: 1
Michigan: 1
NU: 1

Hogan Lovells DC wrote: Yale - 1
Harvard - 7
Stanford - 3
NYU - 1
UVA - 5
Duke - 2
Northwestern - 1
Georgetown - 5
Vanderbilt - 1
Minnesota - 1
W&M - 1
American - 1
Unknown - 2

Latham DC wrote: Harvard - 1
Stanford - 1
Chicago - 1
NYU - 1
Michigan - 2
Duke - 1
UPenn - 1
Berkeley - 2
UVA - 6
NU - 1
GULC - 4
Vanderbilt - 1
Texas - 1
American - 1
Alabama - 1
George Mason - 1
Pepperdine - 1

Cahill wrote: Harvard - 4
Columbia - 2
NYU - 1
UVA - 4
Cornell - 4
Duke - 1
Georgetown - 5
UCLA - 1
Vanderbilt - 1
WUSTL - 1
GW - 1
BC - 1
BU - 1
Fordham - 5
Cardozo - 1
Rutgers - 1
St Johns - 1
Albany - 1

Anonymous User wrote:Summer class info is starting to be sent out, keeping it going from last year.

Last year's thread
http://www.top-law-schools.com/forums/v ... 3&t=221586


Kirkland Chicago
41 Total

Yale: 1
Harvard: 2
Stanford: 1
Columbia: 1
Chicago: 10
Penn: 1
UVA: 2
Michigan: 1
Northwestern: 13
Vanderbilt: 2
GW: 1
Notre Dame: 2
UIUC: 1
Chicago-Kent: 3

Wow, surprisingly low Michigan numbers. Was it like that last year too? Thought Michigan would do well in Chicago

Anonymous User wrote:

Anonymous User wrote:Summer class info is starting to be sent out, keeping it going from last year.

Last year's thread
http://www.top-law-schools.com/forums/v ... 3&t=221586


Kirkland Chicago
41 Total

Yale: 1
Harvard: 2
Stanford: 1
Columbia: 1
Chicago: 10
Penn: 1
UVA: 2
Michigan: 1
Northwestern: 13
Vanderbilt: 2
GW: 1
Notre Dame: 2
UIUC: 1
Chicago-Kent: 3

Wow, surprisingly low Michigan numbers. Was it like that last year too? Thought Michigan would do well in Chicago

Michigan got shut out of Kirkland Chicago last year. But, IIRC, did fairly well at other big Chicago firms. Kirkland must not like Michigan very much. Odd.

Sixigan refers to the number of ke alumina it has.

Oof way less UChi at Kirkland this year

2014 wrote:Oof way less UChi at Kirkland this year

I think Kirkland lost some Michigan offerees to other firms too...

Simpson Thacher- Firmwide 126

NYC Office- 95 Total
Yale: 5
Harvard: 11
Stanford: 2
Columbia: 10
Chicago: 5
NYU: 10
Penn: 9
Virginia: 5
Michigan: 6
Berkeley: 2
Duke: 7
Northwestern: 4
Cornell: 3
Georgetown: 11
Vanderbilt: 1
WUSTL: 1
Fordham: 1
Seton Hall: 1
St. Johns: 1

Houston Office- 4 total
NYU: 1
Virginia: 1
Cornell: 1
Tulane: 1

LA Office- 8 Total
Penn: 2
Berkeley: 1
Duke: 1
UCLA: 4

Palo Alto Office-14 Total
Harvard: 2
Stanford: 2
Penn: 1
Berkeley: 1
Duke: 2
Northwestern: 1
Georgetown: 1
Texas: 2
Vanderbilt: 1
Santa Clara: 1

DC Office- 5 Total
Chicago: 1
Penn: 1
Duke: 1
Vanderbilt: 1
GW: 1

were you emailed this class info or does it appear on the firm website or what

this seems earlier than last year

jbagelboy wrote:were you emailed this class info or does it appear on the firm website or what

this seems earlier than last year

K&E emailed us, friends also got emails from STB and Latham (Chicago), don't know about others though

Latham Chicago
15 Total

Yale: 1
Harvard: 1
Chicago: 1
Virginia: 1
Michigan: 4
Northwestern: 3
Cornell: 1
Georgetown: 1
WUSTL: 1
USC: 1

How long is a summer-10 or 12 weeks?

Anonymous User wrote:How long is a summer-10 or 12 weeks?

Depends on firm.
Ranges from 8-11 is most common I think

Anonymous User wrote:How long is a summer-10 or 12 weeks?

i think most is 10. I know Skadden is 12 though

cusenation wrote:

Anonymous User wrote:How long is a summer-10 or 12 weeks?

i think most is 10. I know Skadden is 12 though

yup.
In some smaller markets though, there may be a lot of biglaw satellite offices that do 8 weeks max.

Anonymous User wrote:Simpson Thacher- Firmwide 126

NYC Office- 95 Total
Yale: 5
Harvard: 11
Stanford: 2
Columbia: 10
Chicago: 5
NYU: 10
Penn: 9
Virginia: 5
Michigan: 6
Berkeley: 2
Duke: 7
Northwestern: 4
Cornell: 3
Georgetown: 11
Vanderbilt: 1
WUSTL: 1
Fordham: 1
Seton Hall: 1
St. Johns: 1

Houston Office- 4 total
NYU: 1
Virginia: 1
Cornell: 1
Tulane: 1

LA Office- 8 Total
Penn: 2
Berkeley: 1
Duke: 1
UCLA: 4

Palo Alto Office-14 Total
Harvard: 2
Stanford: 2
Penn: 1
Berkeley: 1
Duke: 2
Northwestern: 1
Georgetown: 1
Texas: 2
Vanderbilt: 1
Santa Clara: 1

DC Office- 5 Total
Chicago: 1
Penn: 1
Duke: 1
Vanderbilt: 1
GW: 1

So how is this compared to last year?? Bigger or smaller class?

Larger class at least in NYC. STB has been doing very well......

Anonymous User wrote:Larger class at least in NYC. STB has been doing very well......

Very ominous anon......

Anonymous User wrote:Larger class at least in NYC. STB has been doing very well......

Good for the partners who work there? You'll get the same $10k first year bonus no matter what.

zweitbester wrote:

Anonymous User wrote:Larger class at least in NYC. STB has been doing very well......

Good for the partners who work there? You'll get the same $10k first year bonus no matter what.

On a related note, LOL at Georgetown getting 12 and GW getting 1.

lhanvt13 wrote:

cusenation wrote:

Anonymous User wrote:How long is a summer-10 or 12 weeks?

i think most is 10. I know Skadden is 12 though

yup.
In some smaller markets though, there may be a lot of biglaw satellite offices that do 8 weeks max.

I noticed this....Why do they do this? Small office doesn't want to pay that last $6200?

Anonymous User wrote:Larger class at least in NYC. STB has been doing very well......

DRUDGE SIREN


STB TO 190



DRUDGE SIREN

So when do these start rolling out en masse?

North wrote:So when do these start rolling out en masse?

NALP requires that every firm provide this information by November 10, so right around then.

GOATlawman wrote:

lhanvt13 wrote:

cusenation wrote:

Anonymous User wrote:How long is a summer-10 or 12 weeks?

i think most is 10. I know Skadden is 12 though

yup.
In some smaller markets though, there may be a lot of biglaw satellite offices that do 8 weeks max.

I noticed this....Why do they do this? Small office doesn't want to pay that last $6200?

no idea, but for the firms I've heard of, they encourage splitting the summer 6+6 or 8+6.

lhanvt13 wrote:

GOATlawman wrote:

lhanvt13 wrote:How long is a summer-10 or 12 weeks?

I noticed this....Why do they do this? Small office doesn't want to pay that last $6200?

no idea, but for the firms I've heard of, they encourage splitting the summer 6+6 or 8+6.

Depends on the office. I worked for two firms in a secondary market , 6 weeks each (both of which offered 12 weeks). It's likely not a monetary thing. They can decide on hiring within ten weeks without having to make new projects and fill out evals (especially if they extend jobs to most of their SAs).

(Also, the pay may be lower but after taking into account the cost of living index, it's way more lucrative to be in those smaller makers. 130-140k in Atlanta, fur instance, is way way way ahead of 160 in NYC. The hard part is getting the SA and offer...)