It depends. The biggest factors that firms look at are where you went to school, how you did in school, which practice areas are hot in the market right now, and the firm you are coming from. But New York is different from other markets where you have to demonstrate your commitment to that area. For other cities, recruiters really have to go out of their way to show that their candidate was raised in that area or the spouse if from that area, and so on. That's not the case with New York firms.