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)