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You are anon, can you out which school is advising you to send thank you notes?Anonymous User wrote:Thanks, appreciate the input. Yeah, probably won't again...Damn OCS advice.
Dude, most schools advise law students to awkwardly send thanks you notes and call junior associates Mr. or Ms. This has been common. It's not a big deal OP isn't the first person to do this and won't be the lastAuxilio wrote:You are anon, can you out which school is advising you to send thank you notes?Anonymous User wrote:Thanks, appreciate the input. Yeah, probably won't again...Damn OCS advice.
ETA: obligatory: sticky this thread as the example why not to send thank you notes
Oh, that's interesting. Penn was very clearly against the idea and said it multiple times. The couple friends at other schools I talked to said similarly.Lacepiece23 wrote:Dude, most schools advise law students to awkwardly send thanks you notes and call junior associates Mr. or Ms. This has been common. It's not a big deal OP isn't the first person to do this and won't be the lastAuxilio wrote:You are anon, can you out which school is advising you to send thank you notes?Anonymous User wrote:Thanks, appreciate the input. Yeah, probably won't again...Damn OCS advice.
ETA: obligatory: sticky this thread as the example why not to send thank you notes
I just stopped sending them after my first two callbacks. It takes way too freaking long to send thank you notes to 6+ people, and it's not easy to get them out within 24-48 hours. Screw thank you notes.Dr. Nefario wrote:Actually had an attorney on a large firm panel preach how much he hated thank you notes and asked if any attorney on the panel actually liked them. *crickets*
Good for Columbia.stoopkid13 wrote:Columbia makes clear that thank yous are optional, with little upside and large possible downside.
+1 And it's impossible to write more than 3 or 4 without them all sounding similareyeofvigilence wrote:I just stopped sending them after my first two callbacks. It takes way too freaking long to send thank you notes to 6+ people, and it's not easy to get them out within 24-48 hours. Screw thank you notes.Dr. Nefario wrote:Actually had an attorney on a large firm panel preach how much he hated thank you notes and asked if any attorney on the panel actually liked them. *crickets*
No. I sent one thank you in my whole CB process---it was informal and like two sentences long and to an attorney who I was super comfortable with and who took the lead on setting everything up for me.Anonymous User wrote:So no thank yous to anyone after CB? Not even recruiter for setting it all up? Help
It's fine to do it for yourself if you get some pleasure out of it but it's not going to make/break a cb. It's more likely a thank you note will hurt you than help you. Again - you can still choose to do it, but you certainly do not have to.TEM wrote:I wrote thank you notes to all the attorneys I interviewed with this year, screeners and CBs. It takes a lot of time, and I know a lot of people caution against it, but it seems intuitive to me. Maybe that was the way I was raised, I've always sent thank you notes for just about anything - lunch with an attorney, etc.
Also, on topic to OP, I think I sent a typo to one of the attorneys at the first firm I got an offer from, so who knows. Maybe they didn't notice it, or maybe they didn't even read it.
Genius wrote:Requesting sticky as Exhibit 100000 on why thank you notes are a bad idea
Same thing happened to me as well on one of my V10 thank you emails -- not the same error but a pretty glaring one (repeating same word twice). I received an offer after a few days, so it's certainly not "deadly," but I'm assuming it made my offer harder to give since all of my other NYC CB offers came next day.Anonymous User wrote:I very recently had a callback at a V10. Felt like everything went great, but in a thank you email to 1 of the 4 attorneys I met with, I said my time there "confirmed by interest in the firm." Deadly?
I was raised by traditional parents who taught me to send thank-you notes when someone did something for you that they did not have to do—e.g., sent a gift, invited you to stay in their home. I confess I've never heard of the custom of sending thank-you notes to someone who is just doing their job. I don't send thank-you notes every time someone bags my groceries. Attorneys who are interviewing you—and the recruiters who are arranging for your interviews—are just doing their jobs; they're not going out of their way for you.TEM wrote:I wrote thank you notes to all the attorneys I interviewed with this year, screeners and CBs. It takes a lot of time, and I know a lot of people caution against it, but it seems intuitive to me. Maybe that was the way I was raised, I've always sent thank you notes for just about anything - lunch with an attorney, etc.