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Should I read into this too much? If I’m not being sat next to important partners or partners not in my practice group or more awkward associates than my friends routinely are does that mean that the firm is less interested in me? Should I worry?

I also have heard of other people at my school with offers receiving more calls from attorneys at the same firm or emails while I may just get the standard congrats. Is this something to read into? I want to make sure I start off at the firm with my best foot forward so don’t want to go somewhere where they are regretting offering me a job or don’t really want me.

This is unbelievably neurotic. Calm down OP. No firm is “regretting offering you a job”

I’m not OP but at my firm-wide offer dinner I was not seated with the practice group that I listed as my strong preference. I tried not reading into it, but throughout the summer I had also gotten the sense that important people in my preferred group just never liked me/clicked with me, so it was hard not to see the dinner as a reflection of that. It was clear that the placement wasn’t random; those who were most liked by certain rainmakers seemed to be seated near those rainmakers, most people were with their preferred practice group, etc. Another Summer who felt poorly seated told me she also had independent reasons to believe her preferred group wouldn’t work out. I wonder why the firm wouldn’t just organize SA seating randomly; when everyone has had a whole summer to practice talking to new people, it’s not like dinner would be awkward with a new face nearby. Anyway, I’m curious to know how these things are actually planned. I wouldn’t go so far as to assume a bad seat indicates that they regret giving the person an offer, but I also think it must reflect something.

Anonymous User wrote:I’m not OP but at my firm-wide offer dinner I was not seated with the practice group that I listed as my strong preference. I tried not reading into it, but throughout the summer I had also gotten the sense that important people in my preferred group just never liked me/clicked with me, so it was hard not to see the dinner as a reflection of that. It was clear that the placement wasn’t random; those who were most liked by certain rainmakers seemed to be seated near those rainmakers, most people were with their preferred practice group, etc. Another Summer who felt poorly seated told me she also had independent reasons to believe her preferred group wouldn’t work out. I wonder why the firm wouldn’t just organize SA seating randomly; when everyone has had a whole summer to practice talking to new people, it’s not like dinner would be awkward with a new face nearby. Anyway, I’m curious to know how these things are actually planned. I wouldn’t go so far as to assume a bad seat indicates that they regret giving the person an offer, but I also think it must reflect something.

No, it probably reflects the secretary who put the seating chart together had seen you working w certain people and had not seen others. This isn’t “the bachelor” and that partner you are (or aren’t) sitting by isn’t going to be breaking out a rose.

They probably consider you one of the more awkward introverted dorky candidates, I know at my firm we try and place people near ones they’d be more likely to “click” with. However you already have an offer so it doesn’t matter.

How do some people even function at life? Do you really think that anybody with any power over your career trajectory has the time to arrange the seating chart for a dinner function? Do you think it matters at all?

This is why you should work 2 or 3 years before going to law school. Hopefully you can get some of this naivete and people pleasing BS out of your system.

/goes back to wondering how this is even a thread