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The established order is over. We are able to’t proceed to have a summer season program the place we are able to have a look at folks’s full first-year grades after which determine [if] we wish to make them a proposal to affix us as a 2L.
The query is, can we, you understand, can we simply lose out on all summer season associates and let the market go us by, or can we do one thing inventive that may permit us to proceed to have a summer season program, but in addition ensuring that we’re capable of entice and rent high expertise [and] people who find themselves actually succeeding in legislation college.
— Bryan Heckenlively, a companion at Munger Tolles and chair of its recruiting committee, in feedback given to the American Lawyer, regarding the agency’s shortening of its summer associate program. Beginning for 2Ls in 2027, the agency will host college students for four-to-six weeks on the finish of the summer season, whereas permitting them to do public curiosity work or work for an additional agency in the beginning of the summer season. “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 objectives of the constituencies, so that is our try and shift a few of these dynamics.”
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