I Wonder What My Mailman Thinks?

Everyday, he has to stuff my mailbox full of letters from law firms. Yesterday's rejectors?

Hunton & Williams (McLean, VA)
Hunton & Williams (Los Angeles, CA)
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr (Palo Alto, CA)
Parr Waddoups Brown Gee & Loveless (Salt Lake City, UT)
Hogan & Hartson (New York, NY)
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe (Washington, DC)
Keating Muething & Klekamp (Cincinnati, OH)
Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge (Boston, MA)
Kummer Kaempfer Bonner Renshaw & Ferrario (Las Vegas, NV)
Cummings & Lockwood (Stamford, CT)
King & Spalding (Washington, DC)
Haynes and Boone (Houston, TX)

Trying to Stay Positive

Well, it's Saturday and the weekend was going well.  Then I got the mail this afternoon and found it JAMMED with rejections.  The rejectors today?

Leydig, Voit & Mayer (Chicago, IL)

Liskow & Lewis (New Orleans, LA)

Querrey & Harrow (Chicago, IL)

O'Melveny & Myers (Washington, DC)

Latham & Watkins (Washington, DC)

Debevoise & Plimpton (Washington, DC)

DowLohnes (Washington, DC)

Miller & Chevalier (Washington, DC)

Steptoe & Johnson (Washington, DC)

Winstead (Dallas, TX)

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt (New York, NY)

Nyemaster, Goode, West, Hansell & O'Brien (Des Moines, IA)

Blank Rome (Philadelphia, PA)

Cravath, Swaine & Moore (New York, NY)

And the Hits Keep Coming...

Yesterday's mailbox was full. Again. The rejectors?

Dilworth Paxson (Philadelphia, PA)
Prickett, Jones & Elliott (Wilmington, DE)
Thacher Proffitt (New York, NY)
Seyfarth Shaw (New York, NY)
Seyfarth Shaw (Chicago, IL)
Debevoise & Plimpton (New York, NY)
McGuireWoods (McLean, VA)
Starn O'Toole Marcus & Fisher (Honolulu, HI)
Gordon Silver (Las Vegas, NV)
Wiley Rein (Washington, DC)
Stinson Morrison Hecker (Kansas City, MO)
Sherman & Howard (Denver, CO)
Stroud, Willink & Howard (Madison, WI)
Patton Boggs (Washington, DC)
Pepper Hamilton (Wilmington, DE)

Yesterday Was a Great Day

I had my phone interview with the firm in New Orleans and it went great! They want me to come down for more interviews. I'm keeping my fingers crossed!
Of course, the mailbox wasn't as nice to me. The rejectors?

Dykema (Detroit, MI)
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal (Washington, DC)
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher (Washington, DC)
Sidley Austin (Washington, DC)
Baker Botts (Washington, DC)
Katten Muchin Rosenman (Washington, DC)
Christie Parker Hale (Pasadena, CA)
Stoel Rives (Seattle, WA)
Jorden Burt (Miami, FL)
Updike, Kelly & Spellacy (Hartford, CT)
Greenberg Traurig (New York, NY)
Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers (Atlanta, GA)
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld (New York, NY)

Yesterday, Was a Good Day!

The day started with relatively good news from my current firm, as one of the partners ask me about my plans and stated he wants to keep me and is going to talk to the decision-makers. Then I received an email scheduling my phone interview with the firm in New Orleans (it's today). Then I recieved a call-back interview from the firm I interviewed with on campus from Rockford. And to top it off, I "only" had four rejection letters in the mail!

The rejectors?

Proskauer Rose (Boca Raton, FL)
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman (McLean, VA)
Lewis, Rice & Fingersh (Kansas City, MO)
Blakeley, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman (Seattle, WA)

Another Sad Mailbox

Today's rejectors?

Holland & Knight (Washington, DC)

McKee Nelson (Washington, DC)

Powell Goldstein (Washington, DC)

Alston & Bird (Washington, DC)

Entwistle & Cappucci (Chicago, IL)

Greenberg Traurig (Chicago, IL)

Another Monday, Another Mailbox Full of Letters

Today's rejectors?

Hall Render Killian Heath & Lyman (Indianapolis, IN)

Faegre & Benson (Denver, CO)

DLA Piper (Sacramento, CA)

Downey Brand (Sacramento, CA)

Sidley Austin (Los Angeles, CA)

Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek (Milwaukee, WI)

Saul Ewing (Baltimore, MD)

Fulbright & Jaworski (Houston, TX)

Weil Gotshal & Manges (Houston, TX)

Weil Gotshal & Manges (Dallas, TX)

Squire Sanders & Dempsey (Columbus, OH)

Vorys Sater Seymour and Pease (Columbus, OH)

Fenwich & West (Mountain View, CA)

Hogan & Hartson (McLean, VA)

Allen Matkins (Los Angeles, CA)

Kaye Scholer (New York, NY)

Thompson & Knight (Dallas, TX)

New Week Starts Out Well

I received a call from a great firm in Dallas this morning and had a long phone interview that I think went really well! Here's hoping!

Good News / Lots of Bad News

I received an email requesting a phone interview this week with a firm in New Orleans.  That's the good news!

The bad?  Another day with a mailbox FULL of rejection letters.  The letters are from?

Harter Secrest & Emery (Rochester, NY)

Arnall Golden Gregory (Atlanta, GA)

Shearman & Sterling (New York, NY)

Baker & Hostetler (New York, NY)

Cahill Gordon & Reindel (New York, NY)

Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle (New York, NY)

Locke, Lord, Bissell & Liddell (Dallas, TX)

Sidley Austin (New York, NY)

Scott, Douglass & McConnico (Austin, TX)

Perkins Coie (Portland, OR)

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (Houston, TX)

Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker (Los Angeles, CA)

Manatt Phelps Phillips (New York, NY)

Jones Vargas (Las Vegas, NV)

Osborn Maledon (Phoenix, AZ)

Squire Sanders & Dempsey (Phoenix, AZ)

New Record for Rejection in a Day

Arrived home today to find my mailbox JAMMED full of letters.  From?

Dow Lohnes (Atlanta, GA)

O'Melveny & Myers (Los Angeles, CA)

Gallagher & Kennedy (Phoenix, AZ)

Graydon Head & Ritchey (Cincinnati, OH)

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett (Washington, DC)

Morgan & Finnegan (New York, NY)

Hahn & Hessen (New York, NY)

Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto (New York, NY)

Dewey & LeBoeuf (New York, NY)

Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman (New York, NY)

Taft, Stettinius & Hollister (Cincinnati, OH)

Bartlit, Beck, Herman, Palenchar & Scott (Chicago, IL)

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (Washington, DC)

Dechert (Austin, TX)

Gordon, Feinblatt, Rothman, Hoffberger & Hollander (Baltimore, MD)

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (Los Angeles, CA)

Dorsey & Whitney (Palo Alto, CA)

FInnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner (Palo Alto, CA)

Another day, another full mailbox...

Well, I stopped at home on my way to school to "check" the mail.  Today's rejectors?

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett (Los Angeles, CA)

Liskow & Lewis (Houston, TX)

Miller Nash (Portland, OR)

Godfrey & Kahn (Madison, WI)

Harwell Howard Hyne Gabbert & Manner (Nashville, TN)

Akerman Senterfitt (Miami, FL)

Troutman Sanders (Washington, DC)

Hughes Hubbard & Reed (Los Angeles, CA)

Tonkon Torp (Portland, OR)

The Good with The Bad...

Well, today I had my phone interview with Holland & Hart in Las Vegas.  I think it went well.  I hope anyways.  I then came home to a mailbox full of "letters".  From whom?

Reed Smith (Chicago, IL)

Sherrard & Roe (Nashville, TN)

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (New York, NY)

Fish & Richardson (San Diego, CA)

Riddell Williams (Seattle, WA)

Dinsmore & Shohl (Cincinnati, OH)

Schottenstein Zox & Dunn (Columbus, OH)

Brouse & McDowell (Cleveland, OH)

Even more rejections...

Last night's "mail call" wasn't as heavy as recent days, but the rejectors were:

Mayer Brown (Los Angeles, CA)
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr (New York, NY)
Kenyon & Kenyon (New York, NY)
Cades Schutte (Honolulu, HI)

Today's rejections

Today, Monday, my mailbox was packed with rejection letters.  Today's rejectors?

Reed Smith (Los Angeles, CA)

Bingham McCutchen (New York, NY)

Christian Barton (Richmond, VA)

Dann Pecar Newman & Kleiman (Indianapolis, IN)

Bickel & Brewer (Dallas, TX)

Stoel Rives (Portland, OR)

Gilbert Randolph (Washington, DC)

Quinn Emanuel (San Francisco, CA)

Gust Rosenfeld (Phoenix, AZ)

Calfee, Halter & Griswold (Cleveland, OH)

Davis Wright Tremaine (Seattle, WA)

Alston & Bird (Atlanta, GA)

Thompson Hine (Cleveland, OH)

Morgan Lewis & Bockius (Pittsburgh, PA)

Cadwalder Wickersham & Taft (Charlotte, NC)

Ashe, Rafuse & Hill (Atlanta, GA)

Lovells (New York, NY)

Hogan & Hartson (Baltimore, MD)

Possible Hope!!!

I received a phone call tonight from Holland & Hart in Las Vegas to set up a phone interview for this Wednesday.  I'm really excited and praying that it works out!

The prior rejections...

Before I started this blog, my collection of rejection letters was quite huge. One reason why I started this blog was to document my struggle and to give me an outlet to deal with the frustrations. The prior rejection letters were from?

McGuire Woods (Richmond, VA)
Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons (Denver, CO)
Sullivan & Cromwell (Los Angeles, CA)
Ropes & Gray (New York, NY)
Winstead (Austin, TX)
Jorden Burt (Miami, FL)
Ryley Carlock & Applewhite (Phoenix, AZ)
Baker & McKenzie (Dallas, TX)
Boies Schiller & Flexner (New York, NY)
Bracewell & Giuliani (San Antonio, TX)
Carlton Fields (Tampa, FL)
Squire Sanders & Dempsey (Cleveland, OH)
Kenny Nachwalter (Miami, FL)
Greenberg Traurig (Miami, FL)
Shutts & Bowen (Miami, FL)
Davis & Kuelthau (Milwaukee, WI)
Greensfelder Hemker & Gale (St. Louis, MO)
Workman Nydegger (Salt Lake City, UT)
Lionel Sawyer & Collins (Las Vegas, NV)
Jolley Urga Wirth Woodbury & Standish (Las Vegas, NV)
Hunton & Williams (Miami, FL)
Hunton & Williams (Richmond, VA)
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner (Atlanta, GA)
Seyfarth Shaw (Boston, MA)
Dwyer & Collora (Boston, MA)
Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo (Boston, MA)
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr (Boston, MA)
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney (Pittsburgh, PA)
Thorp Reed & Armstrong (Pittsburgh, PA)
Spencer Fane Britt & Browne (Kansas City, MO)
Shughart Thomson & Kilroy (Kansas City, MO)
Husch Blackwell Sanders (Kansas City, MO)
Warden Triplett Grier (Kansas City, MO)
Shook Hardy & Bacon (Kansas City, MO)
Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus (Kansas City, MO)
Bryan Cave (Kansas City, MO)
Dorsey & Whitney (Minneapolis, MN)
Halleland Lewis Nilan & Johnson (Minneapolis, MN)
Winthrop Weinstine (Minneapolis, MN)
Fredrikson & Byron (Minneapolis, MN)
Leonard Street & Deinard (Minneapolis, MN)
Fogg & Associates (Minneapolis, MN)
Maslon Edelman Borman & Brand (Minneapolis, MN)
Best & Flanagan (Minneapolis, MN)
Faegre & Benson (Minneapolis, MN)
Krieg DeVault (Indianapolis, IN)
Bingham McHale (Indianapolis, IN)
Taft Stettinius & Hollister (Indianapolis, IN)
Barnes & Thornburg (Indianapolis, IN)
Locke Reynolds (Indianapolis, IN)
Pepper Hamilton (Detroit, MI)
Miller Canfield (Detroit, MI)
Hanson Bridgett (San Francisco, CA)
ALtshuler Berzon (San Francisco, CA)
Folger Levin & Kahn (San Francisco, CA)
Jones Day (San Francisco, CA)
O'Melveny & Myers (San Francisco, CA)
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom (San Francisco, CA)
Cooper White & Cooper (San Francisco, CA)
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe (San Francisco, CA)
Squire Sanders & Dempsey (San Francisco, CA)
Keeker & Van Nest (San Francisco, CA)
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman (San Francisco, CA)
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal (San Francisco, CA)
Morris Manning & Martin (Atlanta, GA)
Balch & Bingham (Atlanta, GA)
DLA Piper (Atlanta, GA)
Holland & Knight (Atlanta, GA)
Epstein Becker & Green (Atlanta, GA)
King & Spalding (Atlanta, GA)
Sutherland Asbill & Brennan (Atlanta, GA)
Swift Currie McGhee & Hiers (Atlanta, GA)
Jones Day (Atlanta, GA)
King & Spalding (Charlotte, NC)
Fisher & Phillips (Atlanta, GA)
Troutman Sanders (Atlanta, GA)
Katten Muchin Rosenman (Charlotte, NC)
Robinson Bradshaw & Hinson (Charlotte, NC)
Moore & VanAllen (Charlotte, NC)
Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein (Charlotte, NC)
McGuireWoods (Charlotte, NC)
Alston & Bird (Charlotte, NC)
Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll (Denver, CO)
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck (Denver, CO)
Davis Graham & Stubbs (Denver, CO)
DLA Piper (San Diego, CA)
Cooley Godward Kronish (San Diego, CA)
Morrison & Foerster (San Diego, CA)
Latham & Watkins (San Diego, CA)
Fulbright & Jaworski (San Antonio, TX)
Haynes and Boone (San Antonio, TX)
Kelley Drye & Warren (Chicago, IL)
Holland & Knight (Chicago, IL)
Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum & Nagelberg (Chicago, IL)
Drinker Biddle & Reath (Chicago, IL)
Pugh Jones Johnson & Quandt (Chicago, IL)
Sidley Austin (Chicago, IL)
Goldberg Kohn Bell Black Rosenbloom & Moritz (Chicago, IL)
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom (Chicago, IL)
Hinshaw & Culbertson (Chicago, IL)
Wildman Harrold Allen & Dixon (Chicago, IL)
Schiff Hardin (Chicago, IL)
Hill Farrer & Burrill (Los Angeles, CA)
Steptoe & Johnson (Los Angeles, CA)
Holland & Knight (Los Angeles, CA)
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe (Los Angeles, CA)
Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis (Nashville, TN)
Frost Brown Todd (Nashville, TN)
Jackson Walker (Dallas, TX)
Andrews Kurth (Dallas, TX)
Graves Dougherty Hearon & Moody (Austin, TX)
Seyfarth Shaw (Houston, TX)
Cairncross & Hempelmann (Seattle, WA)
Hillis Clark Martin & Peterson (Seattle, WA)
Foster Pepper (Seattle, WA)
Perkins Coie (Seattle, WA)

More rejections...

On Friday, I received a big stack of letters in the mail. The rejectors on this day?

Ulmer Berne (Cleveland, OH)
Morrison & Foerster (Denver, CO)
Bodman (Detroit, MI)
Porter & Hedges (Houston, TX)
Ashford & Wriston (Honolulu, HI)
Holland & Knight (Orlando, FL)
Greenberg Traurig (Dallas, TX)
Bracewell & Giuliani (Dallas, TX)
Jones Day (Columbus, OH)
Bracewell & Giuliani (Austin, TX)
Thomas Kayden Horstemeyer & Risley (Atlanta, GA)
Jones Day (Cleveland, OH)
Baker & Hostetler (Denver, CO)
Ball Janik (Portland, OR)
Latham & Watkins (Los Angeles, CA)
Stites & Harbison (Atlanta, GA)
Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal (Chicago, IL)
Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi (Boston, MA)
Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott (Pittsburgh, PA)

About me...

I know exactly what I want in a job. I'm looking for a position doing commercial litigation with a great firm, where I can be exposed to the many different aspects of commercial litigaton. Unlike many people I know who were able to score a great summer associate position last summer, I'm looking for a place to build a career (ie. I'm not thinking of staying one or two years and then moving on).
I've spent many years as a senior paralegal with large firms and I've seen the culture and committments. That's what I want. I'm motivated to find this job. Anywhere in the country. As the rejection letters and email continue to pour in, it's hard to stay positive about it, but I'm trying.

First Post - Today's Mail

It's Saturday, September 13th.  I just got home from my Saturday Employment Law class, and went to my mailbox to check the mail.  My mailbox was full.  Here's what I received:

15 separate rejection letters to my applications for a first-year associate position.  The rejectors today?

Miller & Martin (Atlanta, GA)

Gibbs, Giden, Locher, Turner & Senet (Los Angeles, CA)

Gibson, Dunn & Crtucher (Los Angeles, CA)

Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll (Baltimore, MD)

Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson (Miami, FL)

Perkins Coie (Phoenix, AZ)

Steptoe & Johnson (Phoenix, AZ)

Gammage & Burnham (Phoenix, AZ)

Akin Gump (San Francisco, CA)

Gardere (Houston, TX)

Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft (Charlotte, NC)

Greenberg Traurig (Boston, MA)

Snell & Wilmer (Phoenix, AZ)

Roberts & Holland (New York, NY)

Darby & Darby (New York, NY)