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The established order is over. We will’t proceed to have a summer time program the place we will have a look at folks’s full first-year grades after which determine [if] we wish to make them a proposal to hitch us as a 2L.
The query is, can we, you realize, can we simply lose out on all summer time associates and let the market cross us by, or can we do one thing inventive that may permit us to proceed to have a summer time program, but in addition ensuring that we’re capable of appeal to and rent prime expertise [and] people who find themselves actually succeeding in regulation faculty.
— Bryan Heckenlively, a accomplice at Munger Tolles and chair of its recruiting committee, in feedback given to the American Lawyer, in regards to the agency’s shortening of its summer time affiliate program. Beginning for 2Ls in 2027, the agency will host college students for four-to-six weeks on the finish of the summer time, whereas permitting them to do public curiosity work or work for one more agency firstly of the summer time. “We’ve heard from college students that [the new recruitment scheme] it’s extremely disturbing,” mentioned Kara Sommers, the agency’s director of authorized recruiting. She mentioned of MTO’s new program that “[t]he market has kind of pushed this [recruitment] timeline, but it surely doesn’t seem to be it’s aligning with any of the targets of the constituencies, so that is our try to shift a few of these dynamics.”
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