If you say I m interested in trial and only trial, you ll meet with predominantly trial lawyers. In general, says one associate, They do a good job of matching you up with people you d like. Some formal elements of organization are missing from the hiring process. For instance, there has never been any kind of instruction for interviewers. There are no guidelines.
Interviews are more of a chat.
Your numbers are on paper, so they re trying to get a sense of you . Regardless of the tone of the interviews, the odds of success are good. Once you get a callback, you re pretty much there, says an insider. The presumption is that the people we bring in for callbacks are people we want to hire. It s not a big hurdle.