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Does Cravath allow touchbacks at other NY firms?
Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2020 1:22 pm
by Anonymous User
Cravath explicitly prohibits NY/NY splits, but do they allow 2-3 week touchbacks with other NY firms? For example, if I did my 1L summer at another NY firm, could I do ten weeks at Cravath and then go back to my 1L firm for the last few weeks of summer?
One post (
viewtopic.php?f=23&t=278851&p=10044288& ... #p10044266) suggested Cravath allowed this. But that's from 2017 and the poster wasn't positive.
Re: Does Cravath allow touchbacks at other NY firms?
Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2020 3:36 pm
by RaceJudicata
If you do the touchback after the Cravath SA, then I don’t see how they would even know. Also, do you already have the Cravath SA lined up?
Re: Does Cravath allow touchbacks at other NY firms?
Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2020 3:48 pm
by Anonymous User
RaceJudicata wrote: ↑Sat Oct 24, 2020 3:36 pm
Also, do you already have the Cravath SA lined up?
Nope, this is pure speculation. I'm just trying to get more info before we bid on winter OCIs.
RaceJudicata wrote: ↑Sat Oct 24, 2020 3:36 pm
If you do the touchback after the Cravath SA, then I don’t see how they would even know.
Definitely true.
Re: Does Cravath allow touchbacks at other NY firms?
Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2020 4:16 pm
by blair.waldorf
In my experience, when a firm prohibits split summers, they mean that you are required to participate in their full program and cannot leave early to join a second firm. As long as you do the first firm’s full SA program, then going to a second firm for the last couple of weeks of the summer is generally fine. I know several people who did this, including someone who summered at Cravath.
Re: Does Cravath allow touchbacks at other NY firms?
Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2020 10:52 am
by Anonymous User
blair.waldorf wrote: ↑Sat Oct 24, 2020 4:16 pm
In my experience, when a firm prohibits split summers, they mean that you are required to participate in their full program and cannot leave early to join a second firm. As long as you do the first firm’s full SA program, then going to a second firm for the last couple of weeks of the summer is generally fine. I know several people who did this, including someone who summered at Cravath.
This is correct.
Re: Does Cravath allow touchbacks at other NY firms?
Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2020 8:00 pm
by Anonymous User
My law school friend did a touchback at another NY firm, but she finished the full summer program at Cravath first.