Economic Downturns Might Mean Less Summer Hires

By: Law is Cool · October 23, 2008 · Filed Under Law Career, Law School · 6 Comments 

Here’s a tip today for OCIs (on campus interviews) from Dan Slater of WSJ Law Blog. If a firm offers you a position, take it up ASAP. There might not be many to go around.

Susan Guindi, assistant dean for career services at Michigan law, said,

When firms came out here to recruit, most of them predicted similar size summer programs as last year. No one was looking at really reducing by any big number. But then of course the bottom dropped several weeks after, so to some extent there’s a wait-and-see going on. We won’t see the full effects until later in the fall.

Career services at Michigan have sent letters to their students, strongly advising them to accept offers immediately. Few people have had had offers rescinded, but it can happen.

There’s no reason to expect that similar economic fears in Canada could have Canadian law firms downsizing too, even if we are doing better than the U.S.

Ontario students might have it the worst. Most current 2Ls graduated from the double-cohort in high school, which doubled the number of university applicants. Presumably this affected law school admissions, and competitiveness within law schools, but no figures on this have been provided.

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