Firms not taking back clerks
Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2023 1:14 pm
anyone want to start a list of firms that aren't taking back at least some clerks this year?
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This is ridiculous panic mongering. My co-clerk and I both received routine solicitations to return to our V20 firms this fall just last week. I haven't heard any scuttlebutt in my courthouse about other clerks not being welcomed back. Firms are not as desperate to hire associates as they were in 2021 and clerks have less leverage now than they did two years ago, but unless you can cite some examples I'm unaware of, your assumption is not appropriate.
It's Wild Card. Uninformed fear-mongering and loitering on the clerkships page, despite, as far as I remember, never having clerked, is par for the course.Anonymous User wrote: ↑Tue Feb 21, 2023 4:22 pmThis is ridiculous panic mongering. My co-clerk and I both received routine solicitations to return to our V20 firms this fall just last week. I haven't heard any scuttlebutt in my courthouse about other clerks not being welcomed back. Firms are not as desperate to hire associates as they were in 2021 and clerks have less leverage now than they did two years ago, but unless you can cite some examples I'm unaware of, your assumption is not appropriate.
Obviously, the market is subject to changes, and individual firms may find themselves in hiring crunches. But we are nowhere near that point industry-wide.
Yeah this is absurd. And the people I know who did Sidley SA before clerking also have return offers fwiwthrowawayt14 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 21, 2023 5:03 pmIt's Wild Card. Uninformed fear-mongering and loitering on the clerkships page, despite, as far as I remember, never having clerked, is par for the course.Anonymous User wrote: ↑Tue Feb 21, 2023 4:22 pmThis is ridiculous panic mongering. My co-clerk and I both received routine solicitations to return to our V20 firms this fall just last week. I haven't heard any scuttlebutt in my courthouse about other clerks not being welcomed back. Firms are not as desperate to hire associates as they were in 2021 and clerks have less leverage now than they did two years ago, but unless you can cite some examples I'm unaware of, your assumption is not appropriate.
Obviously, the market is subject to changes, and individual firms may find themselves in hiring crunches. But we are nowhere near that point industry-wide.
Also a current Sidley associate, I have multiple friends clerking who summered and are coming back in the fallAnonymous User wrote: ↑Wed Feb 22, 2023 11:19 amYeah this is absurd. And the people I know who did Sidley SA before clerking also have return offers fwiwthrowawayt14 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 21, 2023 5:03 pmIt's Wild Card. Uninformed fear-mongering and loitering on the clerkships page, despite, as far as I remember, never having clerked, is par for the course.Anonymous User wrote: ↑Tue Feb 21, 2023 4:22 pmThis is ridiculous panic mongering. My co-clerk and I both received routine solicitations to return to our V20 firms this fall just last week. I haven't heard any scuttlebutt in my courthouse about other clerks not being welcomed back. Firms are not as desperate to hire associates as they were in 2021 and clerks have less leverage now than they did two years ago, but unless you can cite some examples I'm unaware of, your assumption is not appropriate.
Obviously, the market is subject to changes, and individual firms may find themselves in hiring crunches. But we are nowhere near that point industry-wide.