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Summer Associate Offer Rates (2017): Make Way For More Record Hiring!

Offer rates have soared this summer. Congratulations!

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Fall recruiting season is upon us at law schools across the country, and from what we hear, students are pretty confident that they’ll be able to land a job considering the fact that Biglaw hiring is up for the second year in a row. In fact, the biggest of Biglaw firms recently extended more offers of permanent employment to prospective law school graduates than at any point in time since the recession (and we’ll have more on this news later today). Offer rates have soared this summer, and it seems like we’re in for another year of record Biglaw hiring.

How many happy-go-lucky incoming associates will soon be bopping around your firms with visions of $180K annual salaries dancing in their heads?

Following up on Monday’s post on Biglaw offer rates, here are some additional firms that have given offers to all of their summer associates:

  • Brown Rudnick (Boston)
  • Proskauer Rose (Boston)
  • Greenberg Traurig (Chicago)
  • Baker Botts (Houston)
  • Kirkland & Ellis (Houston; one was allegedly a “soft” offer)
  • Manatt (Los Angeles)
  • Milbank (Los Angeles)
  • Baker Botts (New York)
  • Greenberg Traurig (New York)
  • Hogan Lovells (New York)
  • Norton Rose Fulbright (New York)
  • Gibson Dunn (San Francisco)
  • Paul Hastings (firmwide)

We’d like to extend a big congratulations to everyone on their offers. Doesn’t it feel great to know that you’ve got a very lucrative job before graduation?

If you have offer rate additions to this list to share or if you have corrections to the list — e.g., an office listed above that does NOT belong on the 100 percent list — please email us (subject line: “[Firm Name] Summer Associate Offer Rates”), or text us (646-820-8477). We keep our tipsters anonymous. If and when we receive enough information, we’ll do another follow-up.

Right now, it’s more newsworthy if a firm does NOT have a 100 percent offer rate than if it does. 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] Low Offer Rate”). If we hear about any firms with particularly low offer rates, we will investigate and perhaps write a story.

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Earlier: Summer Associate Offer Rates (2017): Which Firms Had 100 Percent Offer Rates?

Staci ZaretskyStaci Zaretsky has been an editor at Above the Law since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, or comments. You can follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.

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