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Re: Northwestern OCI 2018

Post by Anonymous User » Fri Aug 17, 2018 9:35 pm

Baker McKenzie (Chi) CB today (via email).

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Re: Northwestern OCI 2018

Post by Anonymous User » Fri Aug 17, 2018 10:03 pm

Got all top 20 bids. After 20 you will get firms like Kasowitz, Cravath, ones in non-NYC/Chi/SF/LA markets.


"WHITE & CASE LLP
4 Offices: Chicago, IL; Miami, FL; New York, NY; Washington, DC" 20
mayer brown llp (TRANSACTIONAL - Chicago, IL) 40
"freshfields bruckhaus deringer LLP
3 Offices: London, UNITED KINGDOM; New York, NY; Washington, DC" 20
sidley austin llp (Chicago, IL) 80
"cooley llp
10 Offices: Boston, MA; Broomfield, CO; Los Angeles, CA; New York, NY; Palo Alto, CA; Reston, VA; San Diego, CA; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; Washington, DC" 40
FRIED FRANK HARRIS SHRIVER & JACOBSON LLP (New York, NY) 40
ALLEN & OVERY (New York, NY) 20
"ROPES & GRAY LLP
5 Offices: Boston, MA; New York, NY; Palo Alto, CA; San Francisco, CA; Washington, DC" 40
"Gunderson Dettmer STOUGH VILLENEUVE FRANKLIN & HACHIGIAN LLP
2 Offices: Boston, MA; New York, NY" 20
SHEARMAN & STERLING LLP (New York, NY) 40
CRAVATH SWAINE & MOORE LLP (New York City, NY) 40
"WILSON SONSINI GOODRICH & ROSATI
2 Offices: Palo Alto, CA; San Francisco, CA" 20
WEIL GOTSHAL & MANGES LLP (New York, NY) 60
"PERKINS COIE LLP
7 Offices: Los Angeles, CA; Palo Alto, CA; Phoenix, AZ; Portland, OR; San Diego, CA; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA" 40
DLA PIPER LLP (INTERNATIONAL PROJECT FINANCE - Washington, DC) 11
goodwin procter llp (Boston, MA) 20
SKADDEN ARPS SLATE MEAGHER & FLOM LLP (Los Angeles, CA) 20
PROSKAUER (Los Angeles, CA) 20
"BAKER BOTTS LLP
3 Offices: Austin, TX; Dallas, TX; Houston, TX" 20

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Re: Northwestern OCI 2018

Post by Anonymous User » Sat Aug 18, 2018 12:12 am

For the sake of posterity, I'll add on to what the other anon poster who ran through his/her bids/CBs wrote.

About me: 3.3 GPA, K-JD, Real Estate law interest (and can speak passionately about)

Advice:
(1) Be realistic when it comes to median GPAs. Put 3-4 reaches (more than 0.2 above your GPA) and make the rest of your bids fall below that reach threshold. The highest median GPA on my list was 3.68, which I oddly enough received a CB from out of extraordinary luck and synergy with the interviewer. My next highest was 3.62. My third highest was 3.58. Basically every bid median GPA after that was ~3.5 or below. Going in, I considered all of the ~3.6 GPA firms to be reach firms, and I knew any bid in the 3.6+ territory was basically a throwaway but was OK if I could rationalize the bid (one was in my home market, another was a firm I really wanted, and the last one I knew I could put very low in my bid list - meaning I wouldn't jeopardize any other bids - and still get). Any more reach firms that than could seriously have jeopardized my success. As much as I wanted some of those juicy V10s, the V50s in my range paid just as much.

(2) Understand that Chicago bidding (especially lit) isn't far off from chiraq. For example, I know someone with a 3.8 that struck out of Chicago lit. The Chicago firm median GPAs skew quite high. Even the lowest median GPA national firms in Chicago are in the 3.5-3.6 territory. This means that if you have a weaker GPA, you really need to look elsewhere. A 3.3 is going to be tough to sell in Chicago, even with ties, the NU name, and a transactional focus. Chicago was my preferred market, but you would have never known it by looking at my bid list (4 of my top 20 were Chicago firms). That's how it should be if you want a reasonable chance of landing a job. You can always network your ass off as a 2L/3L to land back in Chicago post-graduation.

(3) Understand that Chicago bidding is a "bid high or bust" game. If you want Chicago firms, most of them will go in the top 10. What does that mean exactly? Most Chicago firm bids will be wasted outside of the top 10. You won't get the screener, and you'll have given up a perfectly good opportunity to interview with a great NYC/LA/DC/secondary market firm. I know people who just submitted lists of 25 Chicago firms. Surprise surprise, they got like 12 screeners. Combined with Chicago's savage GPA median's, I knew a couple that struck out and one that is sitting on only 1 CB right now. As a low GPA applicant, I recommend bidding 3-5 Chicago firms you really like in their proper places and then moving on to New York firms up to 20-25. After that point, your have pretty much no chance of snagging a NY firm, and you should move to regional markets (I interviewed with one fantastic regional firm that had 20 spots and only 5 people were interviewing because nobody bid them).

(4) Know that bids 31-40 are going to be "networking bids." You aren't going to get any firm in that range unless it's a firm with like a 3.8 GPA median (scaring people off) in a secondary or non-NU-targeted primary market (e.g. DC, Portland). Bid firms you care about and fall in your GPA range but you know that you can't fit into your bid list without losing another better opportunity/GPA match bid. Then, you can inform the employers that you bid them but got unlucky and really really would love to interview with them. You might snag a couple screeners that way.

Results:

23 of 40 bids (median was 16, 75th percentile was 18)
10 of my top 10
14 of my top 15
17 of my top 20
I grabbed 6 screeners from the 21-40 range.
Additionally, + 3 from open signups = 26 total screeners.

Results: 5 CBs (although there are still 5 firms that I haven't heard back from that are in the slower secondary markets and could result in CBs (got a secondary market CB today in fact))

#. Firm Name (interview slots) (office)
Received screener and bid
Received screener
Did not receive screener
+ Firms added through open signups

1. Baker McKenzie (20)(Chi)
2. Katten (40)(Chi)
3. Sidley (20) (NY)
4. Kirkland (20)(NY)
5. Vedder Price (20)(Chi)
6. Arnold Porter (20)(NY)
7. Fried Frank (40)(NY)
8. Weil (60)(NY)
9. Ropes & Gray (40)(NY)
10. Winston Strawn (80)(NY)
11. Shearman (40)(NY)
12. McDermott (80)(Chi)
13. Milbank (40)(NY)
14. Willkie (40)(NY)
15. Dechert (11)(NY)
16. Mayer Brown (20)(NY)

17. Cadwalder(20)(NY)
18. Cahill (20)(NY)
19. Seward & Kissel (20)(NY)
20. WilmerHale (20)(NY)
21. Orrick Herrington (20)(NY)

22. Bracewell (20)(NY)
23. Stinson Leonard (20)(MN)
24. Fredrickson & Byron (9)(MN)
25. Dorsey & Whitney (20)(MN)
26. Maslon (11)(MN)
27. Winthrop (9)(MN)
28. Godfrey Kahn
29. Reinhart(WI)
30. mcguirewoods (20)(Chi)
31. Morgan Lewis (20)(Chi)
32. Ropes & Gray (40)(Chi)
33. Dentons (9)(Chi)
34. Locke Lord (20)(Chi)
35. Holland & Knight (20)(Chi)
36. Bryan Cave (20)(Chi)
37. Paul Hastings (20)(Chi)
38. Kirkland(Chi)
39. Sidley(Chi)
40. Chapman(Chi)

+ Shook Hardy (Chi)
+ White & Case (Miami)
+ Mayer Brown (DC)

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Re: Northwestern OCI 2018

Post by Anonymous User » Sat Aug 18, 2018 3:11 pm

any recent dings or CBs from Latham (Chicago)?

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Re: Northwestern OCI 2018

Post by rapmasterg » Mon Aug 20, 2018 12:50 am

Anonymous User wrote:any recent dings or CBs from Latham (Chicago)?
Ding on Friday

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Re: Northwestern OCI 2018

Post by rapmasterg » Mon Aug 20, 2018 12:50 am

Anonymous User wrote:any recent dings or CBs from Latham (Chicago)?
Ding on Friday

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Re: Northwestern OCI 2018

Post by Anonymous User » Mon Aug 20, 2018 9:18 am

rapmasterg wrote:
Anonymous User wrote:any recent dings or CBs from Latham (Chicago)?
Ding on Friday
sorry to hear that. Was the ding by email?

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Re: Northwestern OCI 2018

Post by Anonymous User » Tue Aug 21, 2018 11:59 am

Any recent dings from Jenner or K&E Chicago?

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Re: Northwestern OCI 2018

Post by Anonymous User » Wed Aug 22, 2018 5:23 pm

Anyone hear from Vedder?

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Re: Northwestern OCI 2018

Post by Anonymous User » Wed Aug 22, 2018 5:34 pm

Anonymous User wrote:Anyone hear from Vedder?
They gave me an offer a week ago

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Re: Northwestern OCI 2018

Post by Anonymous User » Wed Aug 22, 2018 5:35 pm

Anonymous User wrote:Any recent dings from Jenner or K&E Chicago?
Dinged by Jenner yesterday

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Re: Northwestern OCI 2018

Post by Anonymous User » Wed Aug 22, 2018 5:58 pm

Anonymous User wrote:
Anonymous User wrote:Anyone hear from Vedder?
They gave me an offer a week ago
What was timeline CB to offer?

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Re: Northwestern OCI 2018

Post by Anonymous User » Wed Aug 22, 2018 6:04 pm

Anonymous User wrote:
Anonymous User wrote:Any recent dings from Jenner or K&E Chicago?
Dinged by Jenner yesterday
Was this after a CB?

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Re: Northwestern OCI 2018

Post by Anonymous User » Wed Aug 22, 2018 6:18 pm

Any offers out from Latham Chi yet? If so, timeline after CB?

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Re: Northwestern OCI 2018

Post by Anonymous User » Wed Aug 22, 2018 6:27 pm

Anonymous User wrote:
Anonymous User wrote:
Anonymous User wrote:Anyone hear from Vedder?
They gave me an offer a week ago
What was timeline CB to offer?
Four days. They are meeting once a week to go over candidates.

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Re: Northwestern OCI 2018

Post by Anonymous User » Thu Aug 23, 2018 2:11 pm

Anonymous User wrote:Any offers out from Latham Chi yet? If so, timeline after CB?
I'm still waiting as well.

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Re: Northwestern OCI 2018

Post by Anonymous User » Thu Aug 23, 2018 4:25 pm

Anonymous User wrote:
Anonymous User wrote:Any offers out from Latham Chi yet? If so, timeline after CB?
I'm still waiting as well.
approx how long ago were your CBs? Any recent CB invites?

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Re: Northwestern OCI 2018

Post by Anonymous User » Thu Aug 23, 2018 5:20 pm

anyone hear from Nixon peabody post-cb?

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Re: Northwestern OCI 2018

Post by Anonymous User » Thu Aug 23, 2018 5:22 pm

Is Kirkland Chi reducing their SA class?

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Re: Northwestern OCI 2018

Post by Anonymous User » Fri Aug 24, 2018 1:22 am

Shearman & Sterling offer (2 days after CB)

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Re: Northwestern OCI 2018

Post by Anonymous User » Fri Aug 24, 2018 9:49 am

Latham Chi CB to offer - almost 2+ weeks

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Northwestern OCI 2018

Post by Anonymous User » Fri Aug 24, 2018 3:06 pm

Any news from Locke Lord?

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Re: Northwestern OCI 2018

Post by Anonymous User » Fri Aug 24, 2018 5:28 pm

Anonymous User wrote:
Anonymous User wrote:
Anonymous User wrote:Any offers out from Latham Chi yet? If so, timeline after CB?
I'm still waiting as well.
approx how long ago were your CBs? Any recent CB invites?
My CB was early this week.

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Re: Northwestern OCI 2018

Post by Anonymous User » Sat Aug 25, 2018 1:43 pm

Winston CHI ding. Locke Lord CHI offer. I plan to reject LL because of weird vibes from interviewers and horror stories from previous associates

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Re: Northwestern OCI 2018

Post by Anonymous User » Sat Aug 25, 2018 4:45 pm

Any Winston Chi offers? Timeframe from CB?

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