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There were threads for every year up until this year, so I thought I'd start one. Are people seeing movement?

Nope, wondering at what point I should start to worry

Cravath and EBM rejections came in last month. Still waiting to hear from WLRK, S&C, Selendy Gay, BSF, K&E, Latham. Interview with WSGR scheduled.

Nothing for me in Chicago but other clerks with better credentials and who started earlier have gotten and accepted offers.

To provide a datapoint - COA clerk with two yrs Biglaw experience. Applied to 10 boutiques in NYC around thanksgiving, silence from 4, reject 2, 4 callbacks and accepted an offer from one of them.

Seen a couple posts online (not on TLS) speculating that the movement of 1L hiring for summer associate positions to now has resulted in post-clerkship hiring being pushed to the spring. Anyone have insight into this? Trying to gauge if I am being ghosted or if firms are just occupied with other stuff right now and don’t have time to look at my inquiries/applications.

I am a two-time district court clerk with a few years of big law experience pre-clerkships, and I have only had substantive communication with one firm so far (have reached out to 10 or so).

Any updates? I’ve been having a pretty hard time.

Any updates? I’ve been having a pretty hard time.

Another data-point for posterity.

T25, summa, rural D.Ct. in NE. Applied in November, Interviews at Kirkland/Munger/Jenner/DPW/PH. Accepted offer at one in April. From discussions around the court-house seems like its been a rough cycle a lot of people returning to their firms.

Isn't lateral hiring booming right now? Or supposed to be?