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If you decide to send thank you emails to those who interviewed you after a callback, should you expect a response? I understand this may differ by firm, but is there a general feeling that no response=bad?

I understand attorneys are megabusy but I've done a few callbacks thusfar (awaiting results) and it's pretty 50/50 on whether the attorneys respond

Some respond, most don't.

In my experience if you want a response, you shouldn't just send a generic thank you note. Send one asking an explicit follow-up question to something you guys discussed during your interview. I wouldn't bother sending a thank-you note if its just some generic platitude.

Anonymous User wrote:If you decide to send thank you emails to those who interviewed you after a callback, should you expect a response? I understand this may differ by firm, but is there a general feeling that no response=bad?

I understand attorneys are megabusy but I've done a few callbacks thusfar (awaiting results) and it's pretty 50/50 on whether the attorneys respond

That's pretty standard and based on personality. Someone will care to respond and someone will not.

h2go wrote:In my experience if you want a response, you shouldn't just send a generic thank you note. Send one asking an explicit follow-up question to something you guys discussed during your interview. I wouldn't bother sending a thank-you note if its just some generic platitude.

I think advising against generic thank you notes is prudent, but there's some middle ground between totally generic and re-extending your interview over email or demanding more of the attorneys' time with questions you should have asked (or been good enough to slip in) during your allotted time at the interview. side question: isn't asking follow-up questions posing the exact risk most people fear when debating whether to send a thank you note at all (i.e. messing up a potentially good callback with further communication that might have typos/be overly broad/too specific/too whatever)?