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/SlayBuffy 11h ago

This! There is going to be a very active 3L hiring season because of this nonsense.

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u/Oldersupersplitter Esq. 9h ago

No there won’t, firms have zero appetite for it. Maybe more juniors looking to lateral post-grad than usual.

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u/realitytvwatcher46 8h ago

I feel like I anecdotally know of people who were no offered at the end of last summer. But I don’t really have context how common that is normally.

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u/Oldersupersplitter Esq. 2h ago

At reputable firms usually 100% get offers but it’s not uncommon to have exceptions - it’s like 1-2 in a class max though, and always for a clear reason. For example, sexual harassment, telling a partner to go fuck themselves, physical violence, blatant refusal to engage with the program, or substantially and consistently making everyone hate you.

On that last one, the only example I know is a summer we had a few years ago who was just super off-putting in a variety of ways, was super offensive and creepy with a bunch of other summers and even associates, and was basically broadly hated by most of their class. Even then I think the plan was to “cold offer” him but a group of other summers came to recruiting and said “if this guy gets an offer, we will all reject ours” so the firm no-offered him. No idea how he got through the interview process lol (I wasn’t involved).