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Anyone want to post the breakdown of their summer associate classes? Always fun.

2021 thread:
viewtopic.php?f=23&t=309072

Have firms already started sending this info? Mine hasn’t.

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Anonymous User wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 04, 2022 11:06 pm

Have firms already started sending this info? Mine hasn’t.

Idk last year they were out by now.

GDC DC has 48 summers (including a couple 1L summers and a couple splitting offices).

Yale: 6
Stanford: 3
Chicago: 3
Columbia: 2
Harvard: 5
Penn: 5
NYU: 2
Virginia: 9
Michigan: 2
Duke: 3
Georgetown: 5
Vanderbilt: 2
GW: 1
W&L: 1
American: 1

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Tue Apr 05, 2022 1:14 pm

GDC DC has 48 summers (including a couple 1L summers and a couple splitting offices).

Yale: 6
Stanford: 3
Chicago: 3
Columbia: 2
Harvard: 5
Penn: 5
NYU: 2
Virginia: 9
Michigan: 2
Duke: 3
Georgetown: 5
Vanderbilt: 2
GW: 1
W&L: 1
American: 1

Harvard at #5 with 5 Interns baby!

MTO (17 2L + 4 1L)

Harvard: 7
UCLA: 5
Stanford: 4
Yale: 3
Berkeley: 1
UVA: 1

PW

NY (97)
Columbia (15)
NYU (13)
Harvard (12)
Toronto (4 + 3 NY/TO)
Penn (6)
Howard (5)
Northwestern (5)
Fordham (4)
Georgetown (3 + 1 NY/London)
Cardozo (3)
Michigan (3)
Brooklyn (2)
Cornell (2)
Hofstra (2)
UVA (2)
BC
BU
Chicago
CUNY
GW
Rutgers
Stanford (NY/SF)
UCLA
Vandy
W&L
WashU
Yale

SF (9)
Berkeley (3)
Stanford (2)
Columbia
Duke
UC Hastings
UVA

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Wed Apr 06, 2022 10:10 pm

[PW] NY (97)

Interesting — seems like a substantially smaller class than last year. I count 120 for P,W NY here: viewtopic.php?f=23&t=309072#p10469978

Perhaps 2021 (c/o 2022) was peak hiring and firms are now projecting a slowdown for 2023 and beyond?

ETA: also, Yale 5 → 1. Guess the New Haven whisper networks didn’t work in P,W’s favor.

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Wed Apr 06, 2022 10:10 pm

PW

NY (97)
Columbia (15)
NYU (13)
Harvard (12)
Toronto (4 + 3 NY/TO)
Penn (6)
Howard (5)
Northwestern (5)
Fordham (4)
Georgetown (3 + 1 NY/London)
Cardozo (3)
Michigan (3)
Brooklyn (2)
Cornell (2)
Hofstra (2)
UVA (2)
BC
BU
Chicago
CUNY
GW
Rutgers
Stanford (NY/SF)
UCLA
Vandy
W&L
WashU
Yale

SF (9)
Berkeley (3)
Stanford (2)
Columbia
Duke
UC Hastings
UVA

only one chicago....

STB NY (2L hires only) 111 total

Columbia: 15
NYU: 12
Georgetown: 10
Harvard: 9
Cornell: 8
Penn: 7
Fordham: 6
UVA: 6
Duke: 5
Michigan: 4
Chicago: 4
Northwestern: 3
Yale: 3
BC: 2
W&L: 2
GW: 2
Berk: 1
Brooklyn: 1
Howard: 1
Notre Dame: 1
Pace: 1
Pepperdine: 1
Seton Hall: 1
Buffalo: 1
Syracuse: 1
Toledo: 1
UNC: 1
Vanderbilt: 1
William & Mary: 1

Isn't the PW SF office brand new? Surprisingly large summer class for its first year.

Anonymous User wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 05, 2022 10:02 pm

MTO (17 2L + 4 1L)

Harvard: 7
UCLA: 5
Stanford: 4
Yale: 3
Berkeley: 1
UVA: 1

Does Munger auto offer?

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Thu Apr 07, 2022 9:42 am

Anonymous User wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 06, 2022 10:10 pm

[PW] NY (97)

Interesting — seems like a substantially smaller class than last year. I count 120 for P,W NY here: viewtopic.php?f=23&t=309072#p10469978

Perhaps 2021 (c/o 2022) was peak hiring and firms are now projecting a slowdown for 2023 and beyond?

ETA: also, Yale 5 → 1. Guess the New Haven whisper networks didn’t work in P,W’s favor.

A handful of those YLS students were in the DC office last summer. This class list doesn't indicate any students in the DC office this year.

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Thu Apr 07, 2022 9:45 am

Anonymous User wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 06, 2022 10:10 pm

PW

NY (97)
Columbia (15)
NYU (13)
Harvard (12)
Toronto (4 + 3 NY/TO)
Penn (6)
Howard (5)
Northwestern (5)
Fordham (4)
Georgetown (3 + 1 NY/London)
Cardozo (3)
Michigan (3)
Brooklyn (2)
Cornell (2)
Hofstra (2)
UVA (2)
BC
BU
Chicago
CUNY
GW
Rutgers
Stanford (NY/SF)
UCLA
Vandy
W&L
WashU
Yale

SF (9)
Berkeley (3)
Stanford (2)
Columbia
Duke
UC Hastings
UVA

only one chicago....

Seemed like S&C and STB were more popular for (the limited number of) 2L's headed to NYC. Also a few going to each of WLRK and Cravath.

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Thu Apr 07, 2022 11:03 am

Anonymous User wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 07, 2022 9:45 am

Anonymous User wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 06, 2022 10:10 pm

PW

NY (97)
Columbia (15)
NYU (13)
Harvard (12)
Toronto (4 + 3 NY/TO)
Penn (6)
Howard (5)
Northwestern (5)
Fordham (4)
Georgetown (3 + 1 NY/London)
Cardozo (3)
Michigan (3)
Brooklyn (2)
Cornell (2)
Hofstra (2)
UVA (2)
BC
BU
Chicago
CUNY
GW
Rutgers
Stanford (NY/SF)
UCLA
Vandy
W&L
WashU
Yale

SF (9)
Berkeley (3)
Stanford (2)
Columbia
Duke
UC Hastings
UVA

only one chicago....

Seemed like S&C and STB were more popular for (the limited number of) 2L's headed to NYC. Also a few going to each of WLRK and Cravath.

We have to be careful with using the word "popular" here because you don't know the number of offers they had to hand out before getting 4 people to join

Kirkland & Ellis

Bay Area

Northwestern Pritzker School of Law - 7
University of California, Berkeley School of Law - 5
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School - 5
University of California, Davis School of Law - 4
University of California, Hastings College of Law - 3
University of Chicago Law School - 3
Harvard Law School - 3
University of California, Irvine School of Law - 2
University of California-Los Angeles School of Law - 2
University of Southern California, Gould School of Law - 2
University of Washington School of Law - 2
Washington University School of Law - 2
Georgetown University Law Center - 2
Stanford Law School - 1
University of San Francisco School of Law - 1
Vanderbilt University Law School - 1
University of Texas School of Law - 1
Cornell Law School - 1
University of Notre Dame Law School - 1
Duke University School of Law - 1
Emory University School of Law - 1
George Washington University Law School - 1
Santa Clara University School of Law - 1

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Thu Apr 07, 2022 2:07 pm

Anonymous User wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 07, 2022 11:03 am

Anonymous User wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 07, 2022 9:45 am

Anonymous User wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 06, 2022 10:10 pm

PW

NY (97)
Columbia (15)
NYU (13)
Harvard (12)
Toronto (4 + 3 NY/TO)
Penn (6)
Howard (5)
Northwestern (5)
Fordham (4)
Georgetown (3 + 1 NY/London)
Cardozo (3)
Michigan (3)
Brooklyn (2)
Cornell (2)
Hofstra (2)
UVA (2)
BC
BU
Chicago
CUNY
GW
Rutgers
Stanford (NY/SF)
UCLA
Vandy
W&L
WashU
Yale

SF (9)
Berkeley (3)
Stanford (2)
Columbia
Duke
UC Hastings
UVA

only one chicago....

Seemed like S&C and STB were more popular for (the limited number of) 2L's headed to NYC. Also a few going to each of WLRK and Cravath.

We have to be careful with using the word "popular" here because you don't know the number of offers they had to hand out before getting 4 people to join

Or I could be relatively familiar with the firms people want to work at?

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Thu Apr 07, 2022 7:58 pm

Anonymous User wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 07, 2022 2:07 pm

Anonymous User wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 07, 2022 11:03 am

Anonymous User wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 07, 2022 9:45 am

Anonymous User wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 06, 2022 10:10 pm

PW

NY (97)
Columbia (15)
NYU (13)
Harvard (12)
Toronto (4 + 3 NY/TO)
Penn (6)
Howard (5)
Northwestern (5)
Fordham (4)
Georgetown (3 + 1 NY/London)
Cardozo (3)
Michigan (3)
Brooklyn (2)
Cornell (2)
Hofstra (2)
UVA (2)
BC
BU
Chicago
CUNY
GW
Rutgers
Stanford (NY/SF)
UCLA
Vandy
W&L
WashU
Yale

SF (9)
Berkeley (3)
Stanford (2)
Columbia
Duke
UC Hastings
UVA

only one chicago....

Seemed like S&C and STB were more popular for (the limited number of) 2L's headed to NYC. Also a few going to each of WLRK and Cravath.

We have to be careful with using the word "popular" here because you don't know the number of offers they had to hand out before getting 4 people to join

Or I could be relatively familiar with the firms people want to work at?

Yeah okay lmao

Williams & Connolly

Yale 3
Stanford 2
Chicago 1
Harvard 5
Columbia 3
Penn 1
Berkeley 1
Duke 3
Northwestern 3
U Mich 1
Cornell 1
UVA 1
Georgetown 4
GW 1
UT 1

Anyone else?

Is Paul, Weiss litigation better than Wachtell, Lipton?

Anonymous User wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 08, 2022 12:00 pm

Is Paul, Weiss litigation better than Wachtell, Lipton?

Don't you dare

There is no comma unless you're spelling the firm's full name. https://www.wlrk.com/firm/

Anonymous User wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 07, 2022 2:07 pm

Anonymous User wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 07, 2022 11:03 am

Anonymous User wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 07, 2022 9:45 am

Anonymous User wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 06, 2022 10:10 pm

PW

NY (97)
Columbia (15)
NYU (13)
Harvard (12)
Toronto (4 + 3 NY/TO)
Penn (6)
Howard (5)
Northwestern (5)
Fordham (4)
Georgetown (3 + 1 NY/London)
Cardozo (3)
Michigan (3)
Brooklyn (2)
Cornell (2)
Hofstra (2)
UVA (2)
BC
BU
Chicago
CUNY
GW
Rutgers
Stanford (NY/SF)
UCLA
Vandy
W&L
WashU
Yale

SF (9)
Berkeley (3)
Stanford (2)
Columbia
Duke
UC Hastings
UVA

only one chicago....

Seemed like S&C and STB were more popular for (the limited number of) 2L's headed to NYC. Also a few going to each of WLRK and Cravath.

We have to be careful with using the word "popular" here because you don't know the number of offers they had to hand out before getting 4 people to join

You also don't know:

1) Number of interviews firms conduct at each school
2) Number of students scooped up in pre-OCI hiring
3) How each school allows or doesn't allow the selection of interviews by both student and firm
4) Offer amounts per school
5) Acceptance amounts per school
6) Overlapping offers statistics
7) GPAs and resumes of interviewees, offerees, and acceptees at each school
Personality/Fit considerations by each firm
9) Firm desire for expressions of student interest in particular practice areas
10) Tactics firms use to hit the target number of offerees and acceptees at target schools
11) The correlation between firm financial success and recruitment efforts

Trying to gauge desirability, prestige, or the future of a firm based on school number stats alone is a fool's errand.

Anonymous User wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 08, 2022 1:55 pm

Anonymous User wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 07, 2022 2:07 pm

Anonymous User wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 07, 2022 11:03 am

Anonymous User wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 07, 2022 9:45 am

Anonymous User wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 06, 2022 10:10 pm

PW

NY (97)
Columbia (15)
NYU (13)
Harvard (12)
Toronto (4 + 3 NY/TO)
Penn (6)
Howard (5)
Northwestern (5)
Fordham (4)
Georgetown (3 + 1 NY/London)
Cardozo (3)
Michigan (3)
Brooklyn (2)
Cornell (2)
Hofstra (2)
UVA (2)
BC
BU
Chicago
CUNY
GW
Rutgers
Stanford (NY/SF)
UCLA
Vandy
W&L
WashU
Yale

SF (9)
Berkeley (3)
Stanford (2)
Columbia
Duke
UC Hastings
UVA

only one chicago....

Seemed like S&C and STB were more popular for (the limited number of) 2L's headed to NYC. Also a few going to each of WLRK and Cravath.

We have to be careful with using the word "popular" here because you don't know the number of offers they had to hand out before getting 4 people to join

You also don't know:

1) Number of interviews firms conduct at each school
2) Number of students scooped up in pre-OCI hiring
3) How each school allows or doesn't allow the selection of interviews by both student and firm
4) Offer amounts per school
5) Acceptance amounts per school
6) Overlapping offers statistics
7) GPAs and resumes of interviewees, offerees, and acceptees at each school
Personality/Fit considerations by each firm
9) Firm desire for expressions of student interest in particular practice areas
10) Tactics firms use to hit the target number of offerees and acceptees at target schools
11) The correlation between firm financial success and recruitment efforts

Trying to gauge desirability, prestige, or the future of a firm based on school number stats alone is a fool's errand.

I interpret the word "popular" to mean "desirability," and I wasn't really talking about prestige or the future of the firm. Maybe prestige might affect the firm's desirability from the students' perspective, but that's none of my business. If firm A made 63 offers and only got 9 acceptees while firm B made the same number of offers and got 30 acceptees, that tells me a lot about "desirability."