Mid-August is almost upon us, and from what we hear, many, many students will be going back to law school in a few weeks with images of crisp hundred dollar bills dancing around in their heads and fantasies of quickly paying off their student loans running rampant through their minds. Despite worries that Biglaw’s new salary scale may be keeping some firms from making offers to 100 percent of their summer classes, offer rates seem to be sky high.
How many incoming associates at your firm will soon be cashing in on those extravagant $180K paychecks? We’ve got some information that’ll help you answer that question.
Following up on yesterday’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):
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- Winston & Strawn (Chicago)
- Jones Day (Cleveland)
- Kirkland & Ellis (Houston)
- Latham & Watkins (Houston)
- Vinson & Elkins (Houston)
- Dechert (New York)
- Hogan Lovells (New York)
- Paul Weiss (New York)
- Sidley Austin (New York)
- Fried Frank (Washington, DC)
- Hogan Lovells (Washington, DC)
- Troutman Sanders (Washington, DC)
Congrats to everyone on their offers. Isn’t is awesome to have a job before graduation?
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 [email protected], 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): 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.