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No Offers, Summer Associates
No Offer Watch: The Baker Botts Bread Isn't Rising
Offer season (a.k.a. no offer season) is here in full force. The latest news comes from Baker Botts, and it appears that you didn’t have to be involved in a Texas scandal to get no-offered by the firm. Multiple tipsters independently report that the offer rate at Baker Botts was between 50 to 55 percent […] -
No Offers, Summer Associates
Summer Offer Rate Open Thread: Here Come The No Offers
Firms have been making offers this month. The good news came first, leading us to ask at the beginning of the month: Summer Offer Rate Open Thread: Are We Back to 100%? We’re such optimists here at ATL that we followed that thread with this one: Summer Offer Rate Open Thread: Happy Happy Joy Joy!. […] - Sponsored
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No Offers, Start Dates, Summer Associates
Paul Hastings Offer Rates
There has been a lot of chatter about the offer situation at Paul Hastings. Right now, we understand that about 50% of the current summer class has received an offer to return to the firm. The other 50% are in limbo. Above the Law talked with a spokesperson for Paul Hastings. We have some good […]
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Cold Offers, No Offers, Summer Associates
Summer Offer Rate Open Thread: Happy Happy Joy Joy!
This email messages from a reader is representative of many we’ve received, as well as many comments on recent posts: As a Biglaw summer associate waiting to hear about my future, I’d really like the site to focus on and publicize firms that give offers to all or most of their summer classes. [Last week’s] […] -
Biglaw, Job Searches, No Offers, Summer Associates
Summer Offer Rate Open Thread: Are We Back to 100%?
Summer programs at many firms are shorter this year than last year. That means the summer is over at a lot of places, and summer associates are starting to learn their fates. So far, there is some surprising news. Summers are getting offers. Many people have reported that their firm has given full, 100% offers […] -
No Offers, Summer Associates
Open Thread: It's Going to be an Interesting Summer
The summer of 2009 should be very different from past summers of fun and excess. Many are expecting this summer to be a twelve week (or ten week, or eight week) “job interview” that current Biglaw associates didn’t really have to go through. This shouldn’t come as a galloping shock to A) regular ATL readers, […] -
Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell, No Offers
Nationwide No Offer Watch: Locke Lord's Sub-50% Offer Ratio
With all the attention focused on the 2009 summer class, and current associates getting laid-off, and full service law firms dissolving, we’ve kind of lost sight of the 2008 summer class. Many of them have still not made a decision about their future employment. We’ve received reports from multiple tipsters that say Locke Lord’s Houston […] -
Email Scandals, Job Searches, No Offers, Summer Associates
Foley & Lardner: Where the Wild Things Are
Full disclosure: we do not know exactly what is going on over at Foley & Lardner. But we are hearing a lot of chatter. By way of a quick summary: we posted information that Foley offered only 43% of their summers out the Chicago office. Then Foley issued a firm wide email saying that they […] - Sponsored
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Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge, No Offers, Summer Associates
Nationwide No Offer Watch: Edwards Angell Doesn't Hide the Ball
We received a lot of reports about Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge in Boston. Most of them contained a surprising tidbit: We were all told that we did really well and that “but for the economy,” we all would have received offers. When the no-offer phone calls came, we were told we had great reviews […] -
Blank Rome, No Offers, Pepper Hamilton
Nationwide No Offer Watch: Rocky Balboa Division Blank Rome and Pepper Hamilton
Our continuing coverage of no offers suggests that a 90% offer rate is actually outstanding. Today we have news from two more firms that fell short of 90% but still made offers to the majority of their 2008 summer associates. Our tipsters were right on the money with the information that Blank Rome no offered […] -
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Update: Foley & Lardner Sets the Record Straight.And They're Still Looking For 3Ls
Last week, we reported that Foley & Lardner no offered 43% of their 2008 summer class from their Chicago office. The firm has still not contacted us directly, but multiple tipsters passed along a clarification email sent to all Foley associates late last night. Straight from the horse’s mouth (CEO Ralf Boer): Many of you […] -
No Offers, Staff Attorneys / Discovery Attorneys, Summer Associates
Update: Squire Sanders Now Claims Only One Staff Attorney Offer
Earlier today we reported that Squire, Sanders & Dempsey extended offers to 76% of their summer class, but that an untold number of those summers received staff attorney offers. Well, after an initial “no comment” on the staff attorney question, Squire Sanders decided to clarify their statement: The firm made one staff attorney offer. The […] -
No Offers, Staff Attorneys / Discovery Attorneys, Summer Associates
Nationwide No Offer Watch: Squire Sanders(SSD to SAs: Wannabe a staff attorney?)
The no-offer reports keep rolling in from our readers, but one tip about Squire, Sanders & Dempsey stopped us in our tracks: [A summer associate] at Squire Sanders got offered a staff attorney position. Apparently one-third of the class got real offers, some got staff attorney offers, and the rest? Staff attorney — i.e., a […]
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Nationwide No Offer Watch: Foley Didn't Get the Memo. 43% Offer Rate? Tastes Like Burning.
Foley & Lardner. You’ve heard the rumors. We’ve heard the rumors. Foley & Lardner have heard the rumors and chosen not to respond. But the smoke screen cannot obscure the summer structure fire. Multiple tipsters coalesced around these numbers: 9 of 21 Foley Chicago summers received offers. But six of those offers went to IP […] -
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, No Offers, Summer Associates
Nationwide No Offer Watch: Buchanan Ingersoll
While we continue to pester firms about no offer information, it appears that one firm dipped significantly below the 90% threshold for summer associate offers, at least in the New York office. Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney is another firm that has reported an oversubscribed summer associate class. That said, Buchanan Ingersoll spokesperson Lori Lecker reports […] -
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Nationwide No Offer Watch: DLA and Bryan Cave
We continue our series on no offers with new information from DLA and Bryan Cave. First the good news. The reports on DLA Piper no offers seem to be exaggerated. We had heard that as many as 1/3rd of the of the DLA summer calls had been no offered. But DLA spokesperson Jason Costa assures […] -
No Offers, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan
Nationwide No Offer Watch: Stroock Strikes
The tips keep rolling in about firms no offering summer associates. Today’s confirmed casualty report comes from Stroock & Stroock & Lavan. Unlike Wiley Rein, Winston & Strawn, and other reports we’ve heard that suggest firms are coalescing around a 90% offer rate, Stroock made offers to only 80% of their ’08 summer class. Stroock […] -
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Nationwide No Offer Watch: Winston & Strawn
As we mentioned earlier today, we’re doing a series of posts on law firms no-offering their summer associates. Recently we heard this, from an operative in a law school career services office: The first blow of what we expect to be a horrible recruiting season has landed. Winston & Strawn in Chicago was “oversubscribed” and […] -
Biglaw, No Offers, Summer Associates
Nationwide No Offer Watch: Wiley Rein
Thanks for all of the tips in response to our Friday post on no-offers. We are investigating various leads and will bring you a series of posts based on what we learn. We’ll start with Wiley Rein. The firm’s 2008 summer class was oversubscribed, but only four summer associates paid the price. We’d been hearing […] -
Biglaw, Job Searches, No Offers, Summer Associates
Fall Recruiting Open Thread: No Offer, No Cry(Or: An open thread for dishing about no-offers.)
This has probably already been done at some law school parody show or “law revue.” If so, feel free to point that out, in the comments. But if not — of even if it has, but someone wants to revisit it, in light of the current (dismal) state of the legal job market — here […]