Pre-OCI 2018 Forum

[Anonymous User]

alright has anyone gotten an offer anywhere or what. Let's start talking people

+1

Can confirm offers and CBS happening in the V10 NYC.

[Anonymous User]

I'm trying to pre-OCI a firm (Morgan Lewis NY) that I interviewed with during the 1L diversity hiring, but ultimately did not end up choosing for location preferences (notified them I was no longer interested after getting an offer at another firm, so don't actually know if they would have extended an offer to me anyway). Do you think that this would help or hurt me? // Do you think that having interviewed for the 1L diversity positions bears any positive or negative weight in the 2L hiring process generally? I know that some places like Skadden will move people directly to callbacks, but I'm not sure if that is the general practice, or Skadden is an exception.

How in god's name will the answer to this question affect your decision making?

lol

[Anonymous User]

I was accepted to a secondary journal yesterday. Is it worth notifying the firms that I've reached out to but have heard nothing back from? Or is anything that isn't law review not really worth it?

[Anonymous User]

I was accepted to a secondary journal yesterday. Is it worth notifying the firms that I've reached out to but have heard nothing back from? Or is anything that isn't law review not really worth it?

It is possible it depends on the school/firm/journal, but I am at a D/N/C/B and will be notifying the places I am interested in and haven't heard back from if/when I get onto any journal, not just LR

[Anonymous User]

I know 9/10 V10s have done screeners or CBs with someone at my school

[Anonymous User]

I know 9/10 V10s have done screeners or CBs with someone at my school

Which one isn’t? Does your school have a strict OCI policy or not?

[Anonymous User]

I was accepted to a secondary journal yesterday. Is it worth notifying the firms that I've reached out to but have heard nothing back from? Or is anything that isn't law review not really worth it?

It is possible it depends on the school/firm/journal, but I am at a D/N/C/B and will be notifying the places I am interested in and haven't heard back from if/when I get onto any journal, not just LR

It's beneficial to notify them. Many employers are looking for any journal experience at all - not just LR. While LR is the most presitgious and says something implicit about your grades/ranking, employers are also interested in your general writing ability/co-curriculars.

It can't hurt you; it can only put you a step above anyone who applies without journal experience.

[Anonymous User]

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[Anonymous User]

I know 9/10 V10s have done screeners or CBs with someone at my school

Which one isn’t? Does your school have a strict OCI policy or not?

You can probably guess which one doesn't.

And no, my school has basically no policy on pre-OCI. Not encouraged, not discouraged. Lower T-14.

[Anonymous User]

I know someone with a White & Case interview (unclear whether it's CB or screener), but they have a major connection there.

[Anonymous User]

CBs at (NY) Simpson, PW, Cravath, Cleary, SullCrom. (If relevant, top 5 school, law review, top 10%. Non-URM.)

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[Anonymous User]

I know 9/10 V10s have done screeners or CBs with someone at my school

Which one isn’t? Does your school have a strict OCI policy or not?

Wachtell lol

[Anonymous User]

CBs at (NY) Simpson, PW, Cravath, Cleary, SullCrom. (If relevant, top 5 school, law review, top 10%. Non-URM.)

Did you go straight to CB at all these? We’re all these before OCI?

[Anonymous User]

Interviews in NY for Skadden, Simpson, Latham, Paul Weiss, and Weil. Top ~15-20% in T14

[Anonymous User]

Daaaaaaaammmmmmmmnnnnn NY

[Anonymous User]

Yeah I have PW, Cravath, Simpson, Weil, Skadden, Cleary. Some not until August though.

T14, no idea what my ranking is.

[Anonymous User]

CBs at (NY) Simpson, PW, Cravath, Cleary, SullCrom. (If relevant, top 5 school, law review, top 10%. Non-URM.)

Did you go straight to CB at all these? We’re all these before OCI?

Yes to CB. No screeners. Cravath is scheduled after our OCI begins, rest are before.

[Anonymous User]

Simpson DC CB

[Anonymous User]

DC callbacks and offers (not necessarily both for all the listed firms, some have made offers some have only done callbacks):

Jones Day
Kirkland
Skadden
Latham
McDermott
Davis Polk
Simpson
Sidley
Covington
Hogan

[Anonymous User]

CBs at (NY) Simpson, PW, Cravath, Cleary, SullCrom. (If relevant, top 5 school, law review, top 10%. Non-URM.)

Did you go straight to CB at all these? We’re all these before OCI?

Yes to CB. No screeners. Cravath is scheduled after our OCI begins, rest are before.

Same with me. You go to my school I think.

[Anonymous User]

DC callbacks and offers (not necessarily both for all the listed firms, some have made offers some have only done callbacks):

Jones Day
Kirkland
Skadden
Latham
McDermott
Davis Polk
Simpson
Sidley
Covington
Hogan

I think people should be aware here that context really matters. Some firms use pre-OCI as a way to recruit from schools that are either far away or where they're only going to take 1 or 2 associates from (Berkeley, Stanford, etc.) Others use it as a way to get top talent.

[Anonymous User]

DC callbacks and offers (not necessarily both for all the listed firms, some have made offers some have only done callbacks):

Jones Day
Kirkland
Skadden
Latham
McDermott
Davis Polk
Simpson
Sidley
Covington
Hogan

I think people should be aware here that context really matters. Some firms use pre-OCI as a way to recruit from schools that are either far away or where they're only going to take 1 or 2 associates from (Berkeley, Stanford, etc.) Others use it as a way to get top talent.

Poster who posted list. These callbacks and offers went out to median and above median students at a t13 (Duke/UVA). Most of the students who have received these callbacks/offers are currently working in DC.

[Anonymous User]

DC callbacks and offers (not necessarily both for all the listed firms, some have made offers some have only done callbacks):

Jones Day
Kirkland
Skadden
Latham
McDermott
Davis Polk
Simpson
Sidley
Covington
Hogan

I think people should be aware here that context really matters. Some firms use pre-OCI as a way to recruit from schools that are either far away or where they're only going to take 1 or 2 associates from (Berkeley, Stanford, etc.) Others use it as a way to get top talent.

Poster who posted list. These callbacks and offers went out to median and above median students at a t13 (Duke/UVA). Most of the students who have received these callbacks/offers are currently working in DC.

Being at one of the two schools you mentioned, I know that no one from that school in DC has gotten a CB or a screener or an offer. So.

[Anonymous User]

DC callbacks and offers (not necessarily both for all the listed firms, some have made offers some have only done callbacks):

Jones Day
Kirkland
Skadden
Latham
McDermott
Davis Polk
Simpson
Sidley
Covington
Hogan

I think people should be aware here that context really matters. Some firms use pre-OCI as a way to recruit from schools that are either far away or where they're only going to take 1 or 2 associates from (Berkeley, Stanford, etc.) Others use it as a way to get top talent.

Poster who posted list. These callbacks and offers went out to median and above median students at a t13 (Duke/UVA). Most of the students who have received these callbacks/offers are currently working in DC.

Being at one of the two schools you mentioned, I know that no one from that school in DC has gotten a CB or a screener or an offer. So.

Then you must be at the other school then. I have no reason to make up a random list on here. People wanted a list from an earlier poster, so I am providing people with a list.