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Tell me about Simpson Thacher in Palo Alto

Tell me more. Tips on what to say/do at the callback.
aquamarine 180 den
  09/01/10
Tell them about your enthusiasm for hitting on Stanford bitc...
light haunting area tank
  09/01/10
LOL, why would you want to live in Palo Alto??
vivacious home
  09/01/10
Are they hiring?
umber market cuckold
  09/01/10
I think they are, they told me to hold up for bar results.
Olive House Weed Whacker
  09/01/10
I'm not sure they sell it but if they do, don't buy into the...
vigorous magenta kitty cat
  09/01/10
I liked them, but they dinged me off a callback. Really chi...
Olive House Weed Whacker
  09/01/10
dinged this recruiting season? or a previous season? edit...
aquamarine 180 den
  09/01/10
Nah, fall 2008 OCI. I interviewed after Lehman, they only t...
Olive House Weed Whacker
  09/01/10
they recruited a class of 11 ppl from your recruiting season...
aquamarine 180 den
  09/01/10
Yea I know, it sucked. I got no-offered by my summer firm. ...
Olive House Weed Whacker
  09/01/10
My understanding is that their P.A. office is really an IP l...
Glittery Carnelian Box Office Place Of Business
  09/03/10


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Date: September 1st, 2010 7:34 PM
Author: aquamarine 180 den

Tell me more. Tips on what to say/do at the callback.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1411815&forum_id=2#15941839)



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Date: September 1st, 2010 8:41 PM
Author: light haunting area tank

Tell them about your enthusiasm for hitting on Stanford bitches at Illusions.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1411815&forum_id=2#15942380)



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Date: September 1st, 2010 8:38 PM
Author: vivacious home

LOL, why would you want to live in Palo Alto??

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1411815&forum_id=2#15942350)



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Date: September 1st, 2010 8:39 PM
Author: umber market cuckold

Are they hiring?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1411815&forum_id=2#15942360)



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Date: September 1st, 2010 9:05 PM
Author: Olive House Weed Whacker

I think they are, they told me to hold up for bar results.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1411815&forum_id=2#15942597)



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Date: September 1st, 2010 9:03 PM
Author: vigorous magenta kitty cat

I'm not sure they sell it but if they do, don't buy into the one firm BS. They're pretty distinct from NY and very much Palo Alto first.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1411815&forum_id=2#15942579)



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Date: September 1st, 2010 9:05 PM
Author: Olive House Weed Whacker

I liked them, but they dinged me off a callback. Really chill place, like Cooley and Fenwick without the granola eating facade.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1411815&forum_id=2#15942592)



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Date: September 1st, 2010 9:23 PM
Author: aquamarine 180 den

dinged this recruiting season? or a previous season?

edit: what do you think the reasons were for the ding?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1411815&forum_id=2#15942791)



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Date: September 1st, 2010 9:26 PM
Author: Olive House Weed Whacker

Nah, fall 2008 OCI. I interviewed after Lehman, they only took H kids after that, everybody else from my T14 got dinged. They liked me pretty good too. Oh well.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1411815&forum_id=2#15942813)



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Date: September 1st, 2010 9:54 PM
Author: aquamarine 180 den

they recruited a class of 11 ppl from your recruiting season... i'm hoping to fuck that they do more this year.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1411815&forum_id=2#15943060)



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Date: September 1st, 2010 10:00 PM
Author: Olive House Weed Whacker

Yea I know, it sucked. I got no-offered by my summer firm.

But it's ok, there are biglaw firms (not STB level) talking to me now around there, and at that level elsewhere. And I'm employed instead of deferred into 2011.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1411815&forum_id=2#15943119)



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Date: September 3rd, 2010 3:23 PM
Author: Glittery Carnelian Box Office Place Of Business

My understanding is that their P.A. office is really an IP lit office and the corporate people aren't generating much work from the valley. To my knowledge, they have no presence whatsoever in VC/emerging companies work. Their corporate group basically tries to vulture a few high profile deals from the actual SV corporate practices at the traditional powers (WSGR, Fenwick, Cooley, Latham) using PE connections. And they're competing directly against Skadden and DPW in that space. I assume this means it might be tough to last for a long time in that office now that PE is not riding high like it was in the aughts when this office started out. Especially if changing the carried interest tax creates a little PE M&A last-gasp boomlet that is over by fall 2012.

Bottom line, if you want to do corporate, go to WSGR. If you want to do IP lit, it's probably as good a place as any, but I really have no idea.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1411815&forum_id=2#15957081)