Constant Bad News

Can't there just be one good day with no bad job news? This morning I see an article how firms are now cutting the pay of 1st year's. Of course, this doesn't impact me at this point, as I don't even have an offer for someone to roll back. This has to change...

Yesterday's rejectors?

Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads (Philadelphia, PA)
Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell (Dallas, TX)
Calfee Halter & Griswold (Cleveland, OH)
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton (Los Angeles, CA)
Alston & Bird (Charlotte, NC)

New Week, New Hope

Well, another week is about to start. I'm hoping and praying I get some good news this week. Last week was a disappointing one, as the rejections continued to pile up.

This weekend's rejectors?

Bonne Bridges Mueller O'Keefe & Nichols (Los Angeles, CA)
Patton Boggs (Washington, DC)
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton (Washington, DC)
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton (New York, NY)
Dow Lohnes (Washington, DC)
King & Spalding (Charlotte, NC)
Latham & Watkins (Los Angeles, CA)
Greenberg Traurig (Miami, FL)
Perkins Coie (Menlo Park, CA)
Klarquist Sparkman (Portland, OR)
Alston & Bird (Raleigh, NC)
Dechert (Philadelphia, PA)
Baker & Hostetler (New York, NY)
Holland & Knight (Los Angeles, CA)

Celebration?

Everyday, I keep hoping that the next posting I put on here will be about how I finally received an offer from someone. And, obviously, that still hasn't happened. I keep having people ask me if I'm going to be attending my graduation ceremony or throwing a party when I'm done with school. Honestly, without a job, I don't see what there is to celebrate? Should I celebrate the waste of 4 years? The waste of $100K? I don't see myself "celebrating" either of those things.

Yesterday's rejectors?

Sheppard Mullin (San Francisco, CA)
Altshuler Berzon (San Francisco, CA)
Folger Levin & Kahn (San Francisco, CA)
Hanson Bridgett (San Francisco, CA)
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr (Palo Alto, CA)
Vorys Sater Seymour & Pease (Columbus, OH)
Ireland Stapleton Pryor & Pascoe (Denver, CO)

Begging?

I keep seeing these people (aka. job-seekers) on the news at night, literally begging for a job. Has it worked? I'm at the point where I'll do it if it'll lead to me getting in with a firm.

Yesterday's rejectors?

Bilzin Sumberg (Miami, FL)
Bricker & Eckler (Columbus, OH)

My favorite rejection letters are the ones I get that say how they aren't hiring at this time, but based on my resume they're positive I'll have no problems finding a great job with another firm. That's just hilarious to me. I thought that would be the case. But 9 months of constant rejections is changing my mind.

Yesterday's rejectors?

Sidley Austin (Washington, DC)
Jones Day (Los Angeles, CA)
Barnes Richardson & Colburn (Chicago, IL)
O'Melveny & Myers (Los Angeles, CA)

Not A Good Start

March isn't starting out well at all.  Firms apparently aren't hiring anywhere.  Firms that pay more than $30K a year that is.  It's really seeming like law school is going to have turned out to be an enormous waste of time & money.  I gave up a good career and now it'll even be hard, if not impossible, to go back to that.  

Today's rejectors?

Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe (Los Angeles, CA)

Hogan & Hartson (Miami, FL)

Irell & Manella (Los Angeles, CA)

Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis (Philadelphia, PA)

Spiegel & McDiarmid (Washington, DC)

Best & Flanagan (Minneapolis, MN)

Stoel Rives (Minneapolis, MN)

Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro (Los Angeles, CA)

Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison (Washington, DC)

Quinn Emanuel (Los Angeles, CA)

New Month = New Hope???

It's now March. Definitely the end of the line, in my opinion, to finding a GOOD job for after graduation. No other interviews are lined up. I'm waiting on word from the firm in Sacramento, the firm in Philadelphia, and a job here in Chicago that I will absolutely NOT be happy with if it's what I'm left with. I'm praying for a miracle and hoping March turns out to be "the" month for me.

Yesterday's rejectors?

Reed Smith (Los Angeles, CA)
DLA Piper (Baltimore, MD)
Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll (Philadelphia, PA)
O'Melveny & Myers (Washington, DC)
Spencer Fane Britt & Browne (Kansas City, MO)