So, I see in the news that yesterday Latham & Watkins laid off around 250 associates. With all these firms laying people off, I'm petrified that I'm never going to find a job now. People keep saying "things will improve". And that's all fine and good, but won't that just mean that the firms will increase the # of recruits they bring in during NEXT YEAR's recruiting season? Why would they go back and say "hey, we really didn't do enough with the 2009 class. Let's go back and look at them again". Not likely. I know I have to find something in the next month.

Yesterday's rejectors?

Miller Chevalier (Washington, DC)
Perkins Coie (Portland, OR)
Howard Rice Nemerovski Canaday Falk & Rabkin (San Francisco, CA)
Sullivan & Cromwell (Los Angeles, CA)
Hill Farrer & Burrill (Los Angeles, CA)
Cozen O'Connor (Philadelphia, PA)
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney (Philadelphia, PA)

Another Week...

I entered this week really believing and hoping I'd hear some good news. Unless it happens today, it wasn't to be. Of course, yesterday I discovered another large delivery of rejections from the mailman.

The rejectors?

Winston & Strawn (Washington, DC)
Weaver Austin Villeneuve Sampson (Oakland, CA)
Haynes and Boone (Washington, DC)
Gordon Silver (Las Vegas, NV)
Kummer Kaempfer Bonner Renshaw & Ferrario (Las Vegas, NV)
Copper White & Cooper (San Francisco, CA)
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal (Washington, DC)
Gardere Wynne Sewell (Dallas, TX)
Blakeley Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman (Los Angeles, CA)
Jorden Burt (Miami, FL)
Squire Sanders & Dempsey (Miami, FL)

Worried

It's almost the end of February and I'm still scrambling for even an interview with a firm. I continue to get rejection emails and letters, everyone saying they're simply not hiring. I'm still holding out hope, but everyday that goes by without any positive news brings me down.

Yesterday's rejectors?

Perkins Coie (Seattle, WA)
Ball Janik (Portland, OR)
Bose McKinney & Evans (Indianapolis, IN)
Kenny Nachwalter (Miami, FL)
Entwistle & Cappucci (Chicago, IL)

Tuesday = Slow Day

For some reason, Tuesday's seem to always be the slow day when it comes to rejections. Allows me to enjoy Tuesdays a lot more.

Yesterday, the mailbox was thankful...

The rejectors?

White & Case (Washington, DC)
Wiley Rein (Washington, DC)

Why?

I'm really struggling with how it's possible I've been unable to secure an offer from a firm for after graduation. I search every single day for something. My school's near-useless job posting list (only posting today was for a Korean-speaking attorney to work in Seoul). LawCrossing.com, has also been pretty useless. I desperately want the anxiety to end. This weekend was another one of massive rejections.

The rejectors?

Hepler Broom (Chicago, IL)
Squire Sanders & Dempsey (Columbus, OH)
Cahill Gordon & Reindel (New York, NY)
Stinson Morrison Hecker (Kansas City, MO)
Kirkland & Ellis (Washington, DC)
Ober Kaler Grimes & Shriver (Baltimore, MD)
Greenberg Traurig (Dallas, TX)
Akin Gump (San Antonio, TX)
Reed Smith (Philadelphia, PA)
Keker & Van Nest (San Francisco, CA)
Smith Moore & Leatherwood (Raleigh, NC)
Baker & Hostetler (Washington, DC)
Blank Rome (Philadelphia, PA)
Goodwin Procter (New York, NY)
Latham & Watkins (Menlo Park, CA)
Blank Rome (New York, NY)
Curtis Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle (New York, NY)
Dilworth Paxson (Philadelphia, PA)
Skadden Arps (Palo Alto, CA)
O'Melveny & Myers (San Francisco, CA)
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal (San Francisco, CA)
Orrick (San Francisco, CA)
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr (Washington, DC)
Shearman & Sterling (Washington, DC)
Ice Miller (Indianapolis, IN)
Bass Berry & Sims (Nashville, TN)
Liskow & Lewis (New Orleans, LA)
Fulbright & Jaworski (Austin, TX)
Orrick (Menlo Park, CA)

Nervous

I'm feeling VERY nervous today about my chances of employment (by that, I mean GOOD employment) after graduation. It's been over two months since my interview in Philadelphia. And I know it'll be a month at least until I hear anything from Sacramento. At this point, those are my only two leads. And now I'm almost half-way through my last semester of law school. my career center has posted NOTHING job-wise worth looking at. I'm sure their focus is on 2009's OCI in the Fall. And of course, my list of rejections continues to grow...

Yesterday's rejectors?

Katz Teller Brant & Hild (Cincinnati, OH)
Nelson Mullins (Columbia, SC)

Not Sure What To Do

I am not sure what to do now. I've sent my most updated transcripts and resumes to all the decent firms in all the major markets in the US. I'm waiting on some sort of word from the two firms I've interviewed with that are still options. One in Philadelphia and one in Sacramento. And while I wait, the rejections keep pouring in.

Yesterday's rejectors?

King & Spalding (Washington, DC)
Davis & Harman (Washington, DC)
Alston & Bird (Washington, DC)
Sutherland Asbill & Brennan (Washington, DC)
Williams & Connolly (Washington, DC)
Steptoe & Johnson (Washington, DC)
King & Spalding (New York, NY)
DLA Piper (Palo Alto, CA)
Scott Douglass & McConnico (Austin, TX)
Bracewell & Giuliani (Dallas, TX)
Ballard Spahr (Salt Lake City, UT)
Pepper Hamilton (Detroit, MI)

The Waiting Game Returns

I had my interview in Sacramento on Friday and it went really really well. I was told I'd know within a month. So, now I wait. Again. I want this job more than anything in the world, so each day is going to be torture. And the decision clock (meaning the deadline for me to choose which bar exam I'm going to take) continues to tick.

And of course, I came home from the weekend in CA to find an enormous amount of rejection letters in the mail.

The rejectors?

Saul Ewing (Philadelphia, PA)
Bracewell & Giuliani (San Antonio, TX)
Hill Ward Henderson (Tampa, FL)
Keating Muething & Klekamp (Cincinnati, OH)
Smith Anderson Blount Dorsett Mitchell & Jernigan (Raleigh, NC)
Sullivan & Cromwell (New York, NY)
Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson (Miami, FL)
DLA Piper (Sacramento, CA)
Skadden Arps (Boston, MA)
Skadden Arps (Washington, DC)
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher (Los Angeles, CA)
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher (New York, NY)
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher (Washington, DC)
Winthrop & Weinstine (Minneapolis, MN)
Baker Botts (New York, NY)
Squire Sanders & Dempsey (Phoenix, AZ)
Miller Nash (Portland, OR)
Fennemore Craig (Phoenix, AZ)
Shefsky & Froelich (Chicago, IL)

Big Day Tomorrow

My interview in Sacramento is tomorrow morning. I'm really hopeful that it works out. It's exactly the kind of firm I want to be in and type of law I want to practice. And if I have to move from Chicago, California would be a great place to go. We'll see what tomorrow brings...

Yesterday's rejectors?

K&L Gates (Pittsburgh, PA)
Miller Canfield (Detroit, MI)

At A Loss

I had an interview today for a position after graduation. Definitely NOT the type of job I (1) want and (2) imagined I'd be limited to when I first decided to attend law school.
I have an interview Friday in Sacramento with a great firm and I'm praying to God that it works out! I'm running out of time to decide where I'm going to be taking the bar exam.
I also had the irritating experience of sitting in my Career Center this afternoon to see a bunch of holiday cards posted on the wall from the big firms in Chicago. The firms that less than 20% of the students from my school get jobs with. That's a nice reminder to many of what isn't available at this point. Thanks!

Yesterday, I also (of course) received more rejections. I'm over 1160 now!

The rejectors?

Aking Gump (New York, NY)
Perkins Coie (Phoenix, AZ)
Hinshaw & Culbertson (Chicago, IL)

A Crazy Week

It's been awhile since I've posted anything. But a lot has happened in the past week... some good, some bad.

The Good: I have an interview tomorrow with the JAG Corp. I have an interview with a firm in Sacramento, CA on Friday (I'm praying this works out). And I have a third interview with the Cook County State's Attorney in two weeks!

The Bad: An immense amount of rejections.

The rejectors?

Drinker Biddle & Reath (Philadelphia, PA)
Farella Braun + Martel (San Francisco, CA)
Morrison & Foerster (San Francisco, CA)
Fish & Richardson (Austin, TX)
Covington & Burling (New York, NY)
Bickel & Brewer (Dallas, TX)
Skadden Arps (Palo Alto, CA)
Haynes & Boone (Austin, TX)
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman (McLean, VA)
Weil Gotshal & Manges (Houston, TX)
Sheppard Mullin (New York, NY)
Sidley Austin (New York, NY)
Dewey& LeBoeuf (New York, NY)
Stoel Rives (Portland, OR)
Garvey Schubert Barer (Portland, OR)
Schiff Hardin (Chicago, IL)
Jones Day (San Francisco, CA)
Tonkon Torp (Portland, OR)
Finnegan Henderson (Reston, VA)
Skadden Arps (Houston, TX)
Skadden Arps (New York, NY)
Freshfields (New York, NY)
Latham & Watkins (Washington, DC)
Mintz Levin (Boston, MA)
Debevoise & Plimpton (New York, NY)
Hogan & Hartson (McLean, VA)
Frost Brown Todd (Cincinnati, OH)
Taft Stettinius & Hollister (Cincinnati, OH)
Squire Sanders & Dempsey (Palo Alto, CA)
Greenberg Traurig (Chicago, IL)
Graydon Head (Cincinnati, OH)
Winstead (Austin, TX)
MGLaw (Nashville, TN)
Armstrong Teasdale (St. Louis, MO)
Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor (Wilmington, DE)
Bodman (Detroit, MI)
Baker Botts (Dallas, TX)
Akin Gump (Dallas, TX)
Pepper Hamilton (Wilmington, DE)
McGinnis Lochridge & Kilgore (Austin, TX)
Krieg DeVault (Indianapolis, IN)
Christian & Barton (Richmond, VA)
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman (San Francisco, CA)
Hogan & Harton (New York, NY)
Shearman & Sterling (New York, NY)
Stone Pigman (New Orleans, LA)
Shook Hardy & Bacon (Kansas City, MO)
Baker & Hostetler (Columbus, OH)
Troutman Sanders (Chicago, IL)
Davis Wright Tremaine (Portland, OR)
McGlinchey Stafford (New Orleans, LA)
Jones Day (Los Angeles, CA)
Jones Day (San Diego, CA)
Jones Day (Columbus, OH)
McDonald Carano Wilson (Las Vegas, NV)
Trenam Kemker (Tampa, FL)
Dykema (Detroit, MI)
Gordon Feinblatt (Baltimore, MD)
Bingham McCutchen (New York, NY)
Dorsey & Whitney (Seattle, WA)
Finnegan Henderson (Palo Alto, CA)
Bryan Cave (St. Louis, MO)
Dinsmore & Shohl (Cincinnati, OH)
Gallagher Evelius & Jones (Baltimore, MD)
Boies Schiller & Flexner (New York, NY)
Greensfelder Hemker & Gale (St. Louis, MO)
Holland & Knight (Chicago, IL)
Gardere Wynne Sewell (Houston, TX)
Skadden Arps (Chicago, IL)
Sidley Austin (Chicago, IL)
Goodwin Procter (Boston, MA)
Baker & Hostetler (Cleveland, OH)
Faegre & Benson (Minneapolis, MN)
Gordon Derr (Seattle, WA)
Akin Gump (Austin, TX)
Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly (Minneapolis, MN)
Drinker Biddle & Reath (Chicago, IL)
Goldberg Kohn (Chicago, IL)
Briggs & Morgan (Minneapolis, MN)
Morris Nichols (Wilmington, DE)
Jones Day (Dallas, TX)
Jackson Walker (Dallas, TX)
Husch Blackwell Sanders (Kansas City, MO)
Bracewell & Giuliani (Austin, TX)
Hunton & Williams (Richmond, VA)
DLA Piper (Chicago, IL)
Parr Brown Gee & Loveless (Salt Lake City, UT)
Squire Sanders & Dempsey (Cleveland, OH)
Jones Day (Houston, TX)
Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll (Baltimore, MD)
Quinn Emanuel (San Francisco, CA)