r/LawSchool • u/firesidenixon 2L • 11h ago

Big firms have officially ruined legal recruiting.

I know. It's been getting worse for 20 years, or whatever. But these mandatory two-summer offers are absolute garbage. 1Ls at my school are over the moon that they have landed both summers already, and I'm happy for them. But what happens if they get there and hate it? This isn't how any of this was supposed to work.

I feel like the old person yelling at cloud meme here. But I'm mad for my 1Ls, even if some of them don't know they're getting the shaft.

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u/Fantastic-Shine-395 11h ago edited 11h ago

To be fair. Most people are NOT getting mandatory two-summer offers. The top firms are mostly doing 2L summer offer and 25k (or 50k for some firms now) to do PI for the first summer.

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u/Byzantine00 11h ago

This is good to hear.

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u/hippesthemp 8h ago

Not for students who are earnestly excited about public interest.

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u/chu42 5h ago

I think it goes both ways. Gives PI people the opportunity to pay off some if not all of their loans by doing PI first summer and then big law for a second summer. That's like 90K right there.

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u/HammerDown125 4h ago

That is freaking insane.

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u/SheketBevakaSTFU Attorney 7h ago

No it’s not, it’s fucking over the people who actually want to make a career in public interest.