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)