{"id":147639,"date":"2026-03-31T15:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T23:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/03\/31\/biglaws-early-law-student-recruiting-is-turning-into-a-talent-bloodbath\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T15:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T23:12:12","slug":"biglaws-early-law-student-recruiting-is-turning-into-a-talent-bloodbath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/03\/31\/biglaws-early-law-student-recruiting-is-turning-into-a-talent-bloodbath\/","title":{"rendered":"Biglaw\u2019s Early Law Student Recruiting Is Turning Into A Talent \u2018Bloodbath\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

There\u2019s no way it\u2019s not a race to the bottom.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s just like a bloodbath of firms running toward the top 10% of law students based on one semester of grades, and mainly judging them on where they go to law school<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0 Kate Reder Sheikh<\/a>, an associate recruiter with Major, Lindsey & Africa, in comments given to Law.com<\/a>, concerning the rushed recruitment timeline that Biglaw firms are pushing, which has forced first-year students to make early career decisions. Nearly 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\u00a0email<\/a>\u00a0her 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 Early Law Student Recruiting Is Turning Into A Talent \u2018Bloodbath\u2019<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

There\u2019s no way it\u2019s not a race to the bottom.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s just like a bloodbath of firms running toward the top 10% of law students based on one semester of grades, and mainly judging them on where they go to law school<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0 Kate Reder Sheikh<\/a>, an associate recruiter with Major, Lindsey & Africa, in comments given to Law.com<\/a>, concerning the rushed recruitment timeline that Biglaw firms are pushing, which has forced first-year students to make early career decisions. Nearly 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\u00a0email<\/a>\u00a0her 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 Early Law Student Recruiting Is Turning Into A Talent \u2018Bloodbath\u2019<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day. There\u2019s no way it\u2019s not a race to the bottom. It\u2019s just like a bloodbath of firms running toward the top 10% of law students based on one semester of grades, and mainly judging them on where they go to law school. \u2014\u00a0 Kate Reder […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":147640,"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-147639","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\/2026\/03\/Staci-Zaretsky-wnz45a.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147639","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=147639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}