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Summer Associate Offer Rates (2016): A Guide For Incoming Law Students

If you're an incoming law student with dreams of a $180K Biglaw salary, this is a must-read.

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Save money on glasses eyewearOrientation for first-year students at law schools across the country begins next week, and most incoming students are dreaming about the $180K salaries they believe they’re sure to receive upon snagging a Biglaw job. Little do they know that only a select few of their classmates will be able to slip that brass ring upon their finger. For those of you who wish to keep the Biglaw fantasy alive, we’ve compiled a list of all of the law firms that have extended offers to 100 percent of their most recent summer associate classes.

How many first-year associates in large law firms across America will soon be cashing in on those extravagant $180K paychecks? If you’re an incoming law student, we’ve got some information that’ll help you answer that question.

Following up on last week’s post on Biglaw offer rates, here are more firms that have given offers to all of their summer associates (grouped by city and in alphabetical order):

  • Kirkland & Ellis (Chicago)
  • Winston & Strawn (Chicago)
  • Jones Day (Cleveland)
  • Kirkland & Ellis (Houston)
  • Latham & Watkins (Houston)
  • Vinson & Elkins (Houston)
  • Kirkland & Ellis (Los Angeles)
  • Latham & Watkins (Los Angeles)
  • Debevoise & Plimpton (New York)
  • Dechert (New York)
  • Hogan Lovells (New York)
  • Kirkland & Ellis (New York)
  • Latham & Watkins (New York)
  • Linklaters (New York)
  • Paul Weiss (New York)
  • Sidley Austin (New York)
  • Kirkland & Ellis (Palo Alto)
  • Kirkland & Ellis (San Francisco)
  • Fried Frank (Washington, DC)
  • Hogan Lovells (Washington, DC)
  • Kirkland & Ellis (Washinngton, DC)
  • Steptoe & Johnson (Washington, DC)
  • Troutman Sanders (Washington, DC)

Congrats to everyone on their offers. Isn’t is awesome to have a job before graduation?

For those of you who are waiting to begin your third year of law school, if you have corrections to the list — i.e., an office listed above that does NOT belong on the 100 percent list — email us at tips@abovethelaw.com, or text us at 646-820-8477.

If you have additions to this list, please note them in an email to us. Right now, it’s more newsworthy if a firm does NOT have a 100 percent offer rate than if it does.

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On that note, please let us hear about firms that are NOT issuing offers to all their summer associates. If you know of a firm or an office with an unusually low offer rate — which we will arbitrarily define here as something under 66 percent, or two-thirds — please email us (subject line: “[Firm Name] Offer Rate”). For example, we’ve heard some rumblings about a low offer rate at a certain firm’s Chicago office (a firm with a 100 percent offer rate in another city), as well as a low offer rate paired with cold offers at another firm’s Washington, D.C., office. If we hear more on this firm, or any others with low offer rates, we will investigate and perhaps write a story.

Earlier: Summer Associate Offer Rates (2016): Tons Of Future Lawyers Will Be Making $180K!
Summer Associate Offer Rates (2016): Which Firms Had 100 Percent Offer Rates?

Staci Zaretsky is an editor at Above the Law. Feel free to email her with any tips, questions, or comments. Follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.

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