{"id":164471,"date":"2026-10-06T13:41:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T21:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/06\/biglaw-created-a-recruiting-problem-and-law-students-get-to-suffer-for-it\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T13:41:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T21:41:34","slug":"biglaw-created-a-recruiting-problem-and-law-students-get-to-suffer-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/06\/biglaw-created-a-recruiting-problem-and-law-students-get-to-suffer-for-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Biglaw Created A Recruiting Problem, And Law Students Get To Suffer For It"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

The only reason there\u2019s a feeling that you must move early or you\u2019re going to miss out is that all the firms are artificially constraining their pipeline to a handful of schools<\/strong>. It\u2019s that FOMO effect.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/i><\/span> <\/b>Nikia Gray, executive director of the National Association for Law Placement, commenting on Biglaw\u2019s ever-accelerating recruiting timeline, which now has firms courting students during their first semester of law school. As one Michigan Law student told Reuters<\/a>, \u201cIt\u2019s like, you don\u2019t even know what a tort is and you\u2019re cold emailing someone at Latham & Watkins.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a> is 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 Bluesky<\/a>, X\/Twitter<\/a>, and Threads<\/a>, or connect with her on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The post Biglaw Created A Recruiting Problem, And Law Students Get To Suffer For It<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

The only reason there\u2019s a feeling that you must move early or you\u2019re going to miss out is that all the firms are artificially constraining their pipeline to a handful of schools<\/strong>. It\u2019s that FOMO effect.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/i>Nikia Gray, executive director of the National Association for Law Placement, commenting on Biglaw\u2019s ever-accelerating recruiting timeline, which now has firms courting students during their first semester of law school. As one Michigan Law student told Reuters<\/a>, \u201cIt\u2019s like, you don\u2019t even know what a tort is and you\u2019re cold emailing someone at Latham & Watkins.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a> is 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 Bluesky<\/a>, X\/Twitter<\/a>, and Threads<\/a>, or connect with her on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day. The only reason there\u2019s a feeling that you must move early or you\u2019re going to miss out is that all the firms are artificially constraining their pipeline to a handful of schools. It\u2019s that FOMO effect. \u2014 Nikia Gray, executive director of the National Association […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":164461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164471","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=164471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}