McDermott Will & Emery DC Forum

[Anonymous User]

anyone know much about this firm or how their hiring has gone so far this fall? anyone have an offer already or know how many they accept or any details at all?

[Anonymous User]

I applied in August 2011 and still have not heard back.

[Anonymous User]

I met with a partner for an informational interview in early July. He said I was a great fit, my grades were good, and that he would forward my resume to recruiting.

I never heard back.

[Anonymous User]

I did a screener with them during OCI in mid-August never heard back either way. They hire 2Ls for a particular practice area, or so my screener said. I expressed interest in one area (tax). A few days ago they had a posting on symplicity for other areas (IP, energy and health). I applied again. Haven't heard back from that either.

[monkey85]

sounds like a firm with open lines of communication.

[Georgia Avenue]

They do have a sweet new office.

[Anonymous User]

I did a screener with them during OCI in mid-August never heard back either way. They hire 2Ls for a particular practice area, or so my screener said. I expressed interest in one area (tax). A few days ago they had a posting on symplicity for other areas (IP, energy and health). I applied again. Haven't heard back from that either.

My experience as well except I had a callback with them too. I've heard nothing from them.

[Anonymous User]

had a screener in August for the health department SA slot, never heard back from them. Apparently this is par for the course in DC, b/c same thing happened for every other DC screener I had.

Kinda shitty if you ask me...I mean, it takes literally 2 seconds to send a form email. I got letters from places that got my resume through a resume book/collection, and they can't even send an email? Poor form.

[Anonymous User]

I have a post OCI rejection from them (late August, early Sept.).

[Anonymous User]

Bringing this back but still waiting to hear from them. Callback 3 weeks ago...

[Anonymous User]

Bump. Anyone had offers already?

[Anonymous User]

Notoriously horrible with managing hiring and HR -- I had a screener and CB only for them to tell me weeks later they weren't hiring.

[Anonymous User]

I had a pre-OCI screener (last week of July), callback a week later, and an offer about an hour after the callback (first week of August). It does seem like offers are given based on specific practice area interest. I had a great experience, no communication issues, and really liked everyone I met at the firm. I will be be declining my offer on Monday though - really liked McDermott just choosing to go with another option - if anyone is interested in corporate work it will probably open a slot because they told me they wanted to hire someone with that interest but I think it's a relatively small group at the DC office.

[Anonymous User]

I had a pre-OCI screener (last week of July), callback a week later, and an offer about an hour after the callback (first week of August). It does seem like offers are given based on specific practice area interest. I had a great experience, no communication issues, and really liked everyone I met at the firm. I will be be declining my offer on Monday though - really liked McDermott just choosing to go with another option - if anyone is interested in corporate work it will probably open a slot because they told me they wanted to hire someone with that interest but I think it's a relatively small group at the DC office.

Not sure if you're on here anymore, but how long did it take you to hear back about a callback last year? I had a pre-OCI screener yesterday morning.