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New NALP 'Rules' For Law School Recruitment Seem To Promote Organized Chaos

The new rules are that there are no rules!

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‘Jobs! Give us the jobs!’

This has been a long time coming. The market has become so much more diverse. This one-size-fits-all set of standards doesn’t work. Law school graduates are being hired by a much broader range of organizations. Schools have very different employment profiles for their classes. Schools have very different academic calendars.

— James Leipold, executive director of the National Association for Law Placement, commenting on the organization’s new guidelines for the on-campus recruitment of summer associates. Under the new “rules” (if they can really be called that), there is no longer a 28-day period for law students to decide on open offers, exploding offers will now be allowed, and law firms no longer need to wait until December 1 to begin recruiting students. Leipold says he expects different law schools to do different things, but that “common regimes” may arise when it comes to law student recruiting.

Staci ZaretskyStaci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she’s worked since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.

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