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'FOMO' In Biglaw Recruiting: Will More Law Schools Switch Their Dates For On-Campus Recruiting?

With almost half of all summer associate offers coming before official OCI, it looks like the times are changing for Biglaw recruiting at law schools.

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Nobody likes it, but there is a sense of FOMO going on—if you don’t do this early recruiting, you’ll miss out on the best candidates. We’re seeing a recruiting cycle that looks a lot more like what you see in other industries, where it’s really happening year round and there is no timeline or set process.

— Nikia Gray, executive director of the National Association for Law Placement, in comments given to Reuters on Yale and Stanford Law moving their interview programs to June, ahead of on-campus interview programming typically scheduled for later in the summer. Gray noted that while NALP has yet to release data for 2023, a little less than half of all summer associate offers came prior to the start of law schools’ formal interview programs.

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 and Threads or connect with her on LinkedIn.

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