Accept Your Offers: Part III

We warned you that you should accept your offers. We then demanded that you should accept your offers. But based on the comments, there are still some of you out there sitting on multiple offers.

Career services people have taken note, and are literally begging their students to make a decision. The latest evidence comes from Michigan:

Dear Students,

We write because we have heard from several of you that you are worried that your offers may be rescinded if an employer’s summer class is full, whether or not you have reached the 45 day period in which to respond to an offer. We have also heard that many firms are taking longer than usual to give a decision to students after callbacks.

First, there have been very few actual reports of rescinded offers at this Law School or our peer institutions. We have heard from many employers that while they are treading carefully in this economic climate, they have no intention of rescinding offers. Nonetheless, we think it prudent for you to accept an offer as soon as possible. To put it more bluntly, this is not the time to shop your offers or wait to see if a better one comes along. In addition to being in your own best interest to accept quickly, it may also assist other students who may then receive an offer that you turn down.

Obviously, some of you will not accept your offers simply to help out other students. Maybe you need actual proof that firms are rescinding offers.

We’ve got some after the jump.


Several students at fine New York based law schools received this letter from Akin Gump yesterday:

The goal of our summer associate program in New York has always been to make permanent offers to all of our summer associates. The size of our summer class is set with the accomplishment of this goal in mind. This year, we have had an unprecedented positive response to our summer associate offers. In order to remain true to our goal, at this point we cannot accept any further students into our summer class of 2009. This email is to confirm our prior call providing you with this same information, as we wanted to let you know as soon as possible so that you could make other plans for the summer. We were extremely impressed with you and we believe you will be successful in your legal career. We wish you the best of luck.

Best,

David

David H. Botter

Hiring Partner

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

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There you go. An “official” letter rescinding offers. According to multiple tipsters, the emails were directed to 2Ls who had received offers to join the 2009 summer class.

But it gets better, because apparently Akin’s left hand didn’t know what its right hand was doing. The email above was sent out on Wednesday. On Tuesday, one source received this letter from a senior Akin Gump associate:

Don’t worry about rushing a decision or taking your time. I’m sure our recruiting department would not be happy that I’m telling you this, but I waited until the last day even though I was pretty sure I was going to come here.

Anyway, let me know if you need anything else and we would be delighted to have you this summer.

I’ll speak with you later.

That advice is worse than anything you’ll see in Pls Hndle Thx.

One tipster who received the letter rescinding their offer immediately accepted with another firm. That tipster was able to put the whole situation in perspective:

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The people who had their offers rescinded had several other offers so we aren’t the duds of the bunch – apparently they just decided to try unprofessional on for size this year.

We can’t totally slam Akin Gump. They are simply doing what we believe many firms are doing this year.

Can I get a “NALP” up in here?

Accept. Your. Offer. You have been warned.

Earlier: Accept Your Offers: A Brief Follow Up

Accept Your Offers: Stop Screwin’ Around You Kids Screw Around Too Much