{"id":139426,"date":"2025-12-19T14:02:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T22:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/12\/19\/biglaws-new-recruiting-style-is-forcing-first-year-law-students-to-make-decisions-theyre-not-ready-for\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T14:02:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T22:02:18","slug":"biglaws-new-recruiting-style-is-forcing-first-year-law-students-to-make-decisions-theyre-not-ready-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/12\/19\/biglaws-new-recruiting-style-is-forcing-first-year-law-students-to-make-decisions-theyre-not-ready-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Biglaw\u2019s New Recruiting Style Is Forcing First-Year Law Students To Make Decisions They\u2019re \u2018Not Ready\u2019 For"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s putting students in a position to make choices and present themselves in a way they\u2019re just not ready to.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/i> Anna DiSalvo Konschak, director of career services at Temple University Beasley School of Law, in comments given to Reuters<\/a>, concerning Biglaw recruiting pushing into students\u2019 first semesters at school. About 80% of summer associate recruiting now takes place outside of the typical law school interview programs.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Biglaw\u2019s New Recruiting Style Is Forcing First-Year Law Students To Make Decisions They\u2019re \u2018Not Ready\u2019 For<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s putting students in a position to make choices and present themselves in a way they\u2019re just not ready to.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/i> Anna DiSalvo Konschak, director of career services at Temple University Beasley School of Law, in comments given to Reuters<\/a>, concerning Biglaw recruiting pushing into students\u2019 first semesters at school. About 80% of summer associate recruiting now takes place outside of the typical law school interview programs.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. It\u2019s putting students in a position to make choices and present themselves in a way they\u2019re just not ready to. \u2014 Anna DiSalvo Konschak, director of career services at Temple University Beasley School of Law, in comments given to Reuters, concerning Biglaw recruiting pushing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":139410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Staci-Zaretsky-b3Czww.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}