Still waiting...

The last two days have been rough. I'm dying to hear something positive from one of my interviews two weeks ago (or at least some new possibility). But still nothing. Other than rejection letters. The rejectors?

Seyfarth Shaw (Boston, MA)
Weil, Gotshal & Manges (Boston, MA)
Foley Hoag (Boston, MA)
SmithAmundsen (Milwaukee, WI)
Dechert (Princeton, NJ)
Holland & Knight (Atlanta, GA)
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison (New York, NY)
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton (Los Angeles, CA)

Starting to Panic

Only received one rejection letter in the mail yesterday. But I still haven't heard anything from the New Orleans firm I interviewed with or the firm in Rockford. November is only two days away and I'm still without an offer. Yesterday's rejector?

Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney (Philadelphia, PA)

And Thie Hits Keep Coming...

Still haven't heard anything from the interviews I had a week ago. But I did receive more rejection letters of course. The rejectors?

Gardere Wynne Sewell (Dallas, TX)
Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor (Wilmington, DE)
Proskauer Rose (Newark, NJ)
Davis Wright Tremaine (Portland, OR)

Another Month Gone By...

It's almost the end of October and still no job offers. I'm still hopefully that one or both of the interviews I had a week ago will work out, but the scene is looking grim. No other interviews are lined up. And the rejection letters continue to grow. This weekend's rejectors?

Shearman & Sterling (Paris, France)
Kolesar & Leatham (Las Vegas, NV)
Patton Boggs (Denver, CO)
Squire, Sanders & Dempsey (Miami, FL)
White & Case (Los Angeles, CA)
Crowell & Moring (New York, NY)
Jones Walker (New Orleans, LA)
Fulbright & Jaworski (Washington, DC)

It's been a week since my New Orleans interview. I'm really hoping I hear something soon from them. The mailbox last night was only 3-letters full. The rejectors?

Kirkland & Ellis (Los Angeles, CA)
Sullivan & Cromwell (Washington, DC)
Fulbright & Jaworski (Dallas, TX)

It's Been Over Two Months...

I've been sending out resumes now for over two months (recruiting period) and I'm up to close to 600 rejections. 600! I'm now just awaiting word from the interviews I had last week. Nothing else is seemingly in the works, as I have no further interviews scheduled. Staying in Chicago looks like a 1% chance at this point. Only one rejection in the mail yesterday. The rejector?

Choate Hall & Stewart (Boston, MA)

Mailbox Shock!

Only TWO letters in the mail yesterday! The rejectors?

Foley & Lardner (Tampa, FL)
Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel (Honolulu, HI)

Big Weekend

I had a GREAT interview in New Orleans on Friday and another good one in Rockford, IL yesterday. I'm keeping my fingers crossed!
Of course, with the good, comes the bad. A TON of rejection letters. The rejectors?

Zelle, Hofmann, Voelbel, Mason & Gette (San Francisco, CA)
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner (Reston, VA)
Haynes and Boone (Austin, TX)
Quinn Emanuel (New York, NY)
Pillsbury, Winthrop, Shaw & Pittman (Sacramento, CA)
Epstein, Becker, Green, Wickliff & Hall (Houston, TX)
Latham & Watkins (New York, NY)
Robinson & Cole (Hartford, CT)
Winston & Strawn (Washington, DC)
Cozen O'Connor (Washington, DC)
WolfBlock (Boston, MA)
Vedder Price (Chicago, IL)
Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps (San Francisco, CA)
US SEC (Chicago, IL)
Brown, Garganese, Weiss & D'Agresta (Orlando, FL)
DLA Piper (Paris, France)
Kirkland & Ellis (San Francisco, CA)
King & Spalding (San Francisco, CA)
Kilpatrick & Stockton (Washington, DC)
Cozen O'Connor (Miami, FL)
Snell & Wilmer (Phoenix, AZ)
Ober Kaler Grimes & Shriver (Baltimore, MD)
O'Melveny & Myers (New York, NY)
Gibbons (Newark, NJ)
Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro (Los Angeles, CA)
Musick, Peeler & Garrett (Los Angeles, CA)
Stoel Rives (Salt Lake City, UT)
Fulbright & Jaworski (St. Louis, MO)
Troutman Sanders (McLean, VA)
Latham & Watkins (Newark, NJ)
Baker & McKenzie (Miami, FL)

Large Week

This week is big. I'm flying down to New Orleans Thursday night for a callback interview with a firm there on Friday. I'm praying it pays off. Monday, I'm off to Rockford for another callback interview.
Something else big? The number of rejections in the mail yesterday (Monday was a holiday, so no mail).
The rejectors?

Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (Newport Beach, CA)
Dewey & LeBoeuf (San Francisco, CA)
Seyfarth Shaw (Washington, DC)
Morrison & Foerster (Palo Alto, CA)
Hill Ward Henderson (Tampa, FL)
Hinckley Allen Snyder (Boston, MA)
McKenna Long & Aldridge (Atlanta, GA)
Reed Smith (San Francisco, CA)
Hughes Hubbard & Reed (Paris, France)

Nice Weather, Stormy Mailbox

It's a beautiful Saturday, yet Friday and Saturday had more gloomy news in the mailbox.  The rejectors this time even came from across the Atlantic.  The rejectors?

Fox Rothschild (Philadelphia, PA)

Epstein Becker & Green (Washington, DC)

Lowenstein Sandler (Roseland, NJ)

Culp, Elliott & Carpenter (Charlotte, NC)

Halloran & Sage (Hartford, CT)

Morris, Pickering & Peterson (Las Vegas, NV)

Baker & Hostetler (Cincinnati, OH)

Morrison & Foerster (New York, NY)

Carter, Ledyard & Milburn (Nw York, NY)

Hogan & Hartson (Paris, France)

It Shouldn't Be This Hard...

Another day goes by without a single interview invite. It's been two months since recruiting started. I've applied all over the country. Thus far, my leads are minimal in number (3) and none are in the city where I'm attending law school and have lived and worked for most of my life. It sucks.
Yesterday's rejectors?

Verrill Dana (Portland, ME)
Kelley Drye & Warren (Parsippany, NJ)
DLA Piper (Seattle, WA)
McCarter & English (Newark, NJ)
Wolff & Samson (West Orange, NJ)
Winston & Strawn (Charlotte, NC)

Another Slow Mail Day

ONLY 4 letters yesterday in the mailbox! I'm just hoping next week's interviews in New Orleans and Rockford are productive. The rejectors?

Morgan Lewis & Bockius (Miami, FL)
Blank Rome (Washington, DC)
Richards, Layton & Finger (Wilmington, DE)
Squire, Sanders & Dempsey (Palo Alto, CA)

Slow Mail Day

Only TWO rejection letters today! The mailman must be wondering what's up! The rejectors?

Hunton & Williams (Atlanta, GA)
Hall, Prangle & Schoonveld (Chicago, IL)

Running Out of Ideas

My total rejections (letters and emails) is getting close to 500 now. I have no current leads or options in Chicago, other than the firm I'm currently working for. And outside of Chicago, I have two possibles right now. Each day the mailbox seems to have more letters than the day before. Yesterday, it was FILLED. The rejectors?

DLA Piper (Palo Alto, CA)
Jones Day (Los Angeles, CA)
Jones Day (Houston, TX)
Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell (Houston, TX)
Morris James (Wilmington, DE)
Cozen O'Connor (Philadelphia, PA)
Bass, Berry & Sims (Nashville, TN)
Goodwin Procter (San Francisco, CA)
Bonne Bridges Mueller O'Keefe & Nichols (Los Angeles, CA)
Beveridge & Diamond (Washington, DC)
Kirkland & Ellis (Washington, DC)
McGinnis, Lochridge & Kilgore (Austin, TX)
McGlinchey Stafford (New Orleans, LA)

I Just Don't Get It...

I know I would make a great associate. I just don't know why I can't get more positive responses to my applications? This weekend's rejectors?

Dorsey & Whitney (Seattle, WA)
Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll (Philadelphia, PA)
Weil, Gotshal & Manges (New York, NY)
Hangley Aronchick Segal & Pudlin (Philadelphia, PA)
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom (New York, NY)
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft (New York, NY)
Spiegel & McDiarmid (Washington, DC)
Briggs and Morgan (Minneapolis, MN)
Winston & Strawn (San Francisco, CA)
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom (Palo Alto, CA)
Munger Tolles & Olson (Los Angeles, CA)
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld (Los Angeles, CA)
Fennemore Craig (Phoenix, AZ)
White & Case (Washington, DC)
Lathrop & Gage (Kansas City, MO)
Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann (New Orleans, LA)
Davis & Harman (Washington, DC)
Otten Johnson Robinson Neff & Ragonetti (Denver, CO)

October? So far, no better than September...

My stack of rejection letters is becoming overwhelming... yesterday's rejectors?

Frommer Lawrence & Haug (New York, NY)
Preti Flaherty Beliveau & Pachios (Portland, ME)
Haynes and Boone (Washington, DC)
Wolf Block (Philadelphia, PA)
McKee Nelson (New York, NY)
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher (New York, NY)
Covington & Burling (New York, NY)
Shearman & Sterling (Washington, DC)
Baker Botts (Houston, TX)

New Month, New Letters

October started off with a relatively slow rejection mail day. Maybe it's a good sign? The rejectors?

King & Spalding (New York, NY)
Duane Morris (Philadelphia, PA)
Much Shelist (Chicago, IL)
Belin Lamson McCormick Zumbach Flynn (Des Moines, IA)

End of the Month Blues

Well, September ended with a "slow" mail day. Only three more rejections. From?

Otterbourg, Steindler, Houston & Rosen (New York, NY)
Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz (Wilmington, DE)
Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell (Wilmington, DE)