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NYC summer program lengths?

Post by Anonymous User » Thu Feb 18, 2021 6:29 pm

My firm has been very noncommittal about the dates and length. Wondering if that's standard in the NYC market right now or if they are going to pull an S&C on us....

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Re: NYC summer program lengths?

Post by Anonymous User » Thu Feb 18, 2021 7:07 pm

Summer program length details, drawing from a few offer letters...

CSM: N/A (but encouraging ppl "to spend as much of their summer with us as possible")
Cleary: "minimum commitment of seven weeks"
Deb: "we require a minimum eight-week stay in our summer program" (but "maximum length of stay" not set)
DPW: N/A
P,W: N/A
Skadden: N/A (but promising "best-in-class experience")
S&C: N/A
Weil: N/A

TLDR: no firm has made a definitive commitment AFAIK; but based on a few firms' "minimum" expectations, it sounds like most expect a full summer. When I chatted informally with lawyers about summer plans, most of them struck a contrite, we're-going-to-do-better-this-year tone. I doubt your firm has any nefarious plans.

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