Date: September 27th, 2007 10:56 PM Author: demanding famous landscape painting
1. The place was filled, and filled with fucking douches. How many fucking people are Cravath accepting? There were at least 40 CLS students there, many of them were fucking obvious retards. what the fuck.
2. Guys, they emphasized that a) the attorneys will be coming from the office and wearing suits and ties, b) you can wear business casual, but wear a jacket (Daniel requires a jacket), yet many fucking retards still showed up with nasty ass wrinkly shirts untucked and no jackets. You fucking poors.
3. One douche ACCPED HIS OFFER during dinner. They stopped everyone and made a big deal out of it. "This guy just accepted our offer!! Woohoo!"
Fucking douchefag. Then he went around the room like he deserved fucking compliments.
4. Did I say 80% of the CLS students there were obvious retards? I forgot to mention the 8 Fordham transfers there. That's right, CLS students. If you didn't get an offer from Cravath, that's because these faggots from Fordham took your spots even though they scored 162 on the LSAT and couldn't get a decent undergrad GPA for their lives. Then they got dumped to Fordham, did better than the other retards there, and all of a sudden they're supposed to be smarter than you. When will CLS realize that just because these morons (by default) did better than the other imbeciles at Fordham doesn't mean they have a three-digit IQ? When will CLS stop accepting these faggots?
5. Fuck Cravath. I'm turning down the offer tomorrow.
EDIT: to clarify, i didn't just mean that the 40 CLS (well, 32, minus the Fordham fags) at the dinner were douchefags. Many undoubtedly were. But I was really trying to emphasize the fact that many were RETARDS. From my year at CLS I have met some truly bright people. Unfortunately, almost none of them were at the dinner tonight. Meanwhile, there were many retards who spoke FAR too often in class about things that revealed FAR too much of their ignorance and idiocy. Also unfortunately, almost all of them were at the dinner.
Date: September 29th, 2007 4:26 AM Author: demanding famous landscape painting
of course they will. i already skipped over 50% of my classes so far. why the fuck would I care? most of the original CLS 1Ls who are off to BIGLAW and aren't retarded enough to try to clerk stop caring after 2L OCI. It's only the retarded douchefag transfers who continue to gun throughout the rest of law school.
I'm not even going to make stone scholar this year and next, i'm calling it. So what? what does that have to do with my thread?
"4. Did I say 80% of the CLS students there were obvious retards? I forgot to mention the 8 Fordham transfers there. That's right, CLS students. If you didn't get an offer from Cravath, that's because these faggots from Fordham took your spots even though they scored 162 on the LSAT and couldn't get a decent undergrad GPA for their lives. Then they got dumped to Fordham, did better than the other retards there, and all of a sudden they're supposed to be smarter than you. When will CLS realize that just because these morons (by default) did better than the other imbeciles at Fordham doesn't mean they have a three-digit IQ? When will CLS stop accepting these faggots? "
Actually, these "faggots" would have gotten cravath offers had they stayed at Fordham. So, had they not transfered, 32 Columbia students would have been at the Columbia dinner and 8 more would have been at the Fordham one. I hope this helps. xoxo, 2nd Yr. BigLaw Loligator.
Date: September 29th, 2007 4:28 AM Author: demanding famous landscape painting
actually, cravath would never accept 8 students from fordham in a single year, even if they all turn out to be SCOTUS clerk materials. If you know anything about Cravath you would know that. you just exposed yourself as a retarded 0L who would never even get a chance to interview with Cravath. But good luck with Wayne State
I googled Cravath and went to "attorney search." Looks like aside from the HYS standard the next primary set of law schools was from NYC. (correct me if I'm wrong - I think Fordam is in the city? - sorry not from there).
Anyways, there were 32 attorneys listed from Fordham, compared w/ 64 from NYU, and 82 from Columbia.
There were less than 20 attorneys from each of these schools I looked up: Cornell, Penn, Chicago, Georgetown, UVA. (and for the record, ok, only 9 from Stanford).
Another note is I didn't pay attn to attorneys' titles and what they might have implied.
But all in all, it didn't look too bad for Fordam...
before you get your panties in a bunch, why not list some of the better BIGLAW firms in nyc that aren't recruiting from the same pool you are talking about. the simpson and dpw offer dinners for CLS had mostly the same people. face it, if you didn't get wachtell, and it doesn't sound like you did - learn to live with your own mediocrity and stop being such a bitch.
Date: September 29th, 2007 4:24 AM Author: demanding famous landscape painting
i actually did get an offer from wachtell. i wasn't going to mention it because i was planning to accept and didn't want to get close to outting myself (there're only about 5-6 of us from CLS I believe, and at least 3-4 are clearly not XOXOers)
but after thinking about it, i'm not going to do wachtell either. I don't have the energy to explain that decision.
But yes, you're right - the reception dinners at other top firms will be essentially the same. But then i think the proper response would be for me to write a similar thread for each dinner reception, and not omit my tirades altogether. what do you think?
Date: September 28th, 2007 5:45 PM Author: lake ticket booth
all of those little punks will leave their firm in three years anyways because they cannot hack it. i think it is so stupid when people make a big deal about going to biglaw. newsflash you fucker, you're probably not going to be able to hack it.
Date: September 27th, 2007 11:39 PM Author: cerebral alcoholic masturbator sex offender
this past summer's stats say 20 CLS students were in the class. 20/40 = 50% hit rate, which would be pretty damn high. too bad about the fordham retards!
Date: September 27th, 2007 11:47 PM Author: demanding famous landscape painting
you know, normally i don't give a fuck about transfer students. but all the ones i've met (from cornell, fordham...) are uniformly stupid. and i've met plenty of them. the worst thing is they're all gunners, but they're worse than the 1L gunners since they're actually stupid. i guess they're used to being among retards so they actually think they're smart
Date: September 28th, 2007 7:56 AM Author: cyan pozpig
"I'm hypothesizing that the type of student who goes to a "TTT" often aspires to a very different career than someone who goes to better ranked law school. Many folks at T14s have aspirations and options that are far more interesting than law firms, and are less likely to be content working shit hours at a law firm."
this is horrendously inaccurate. the primary reason for going to a t6 is you automatically get biglaw. if you wanted to save the world youd take a full ride at a t50
Date: September 28th, 2007 11:08 AM Author: Drunken chartreuse parlor
except that you're unemployable at most prestigious government agencies, public interest groups, etc and not competitive for DOJ honors, fellowships, law professor & c. if you come from a non T14
Date: September 28th, 2007 8:11 PM Author: cyan pozpig
Doesnt matter. The vast majority of H grads go to biglaw. Sure the 5% who try to save the world have more 'prestigious' world saving jobs than the do-gooders at ttts, but H grads go into biglaw at an exponentially greater rate than ttts. I cant believe i have to explaing this to you.
Date: September 28th, 2007 8:06 PM Author: cyan pozpig
Your 'hypothesis' may be logical, but its horribly inaccurate. 'Aspirations and options' aside, the fact is that people at t14s go into biglaw at an exponentially greater rate than people at ttts. Of course someone may go to Stanford wanting to work for the EPA and may have the chance to do so, but once they realize they can make 4x as much in their 1st year at a firm they decide otherwise.
I'm hypothesizing that the type of student who goes to a "TTT" often aspires to a very different career than someone who goes to better ranked law school. Many folks at T14s have aspirations and options that are far more interesting than law firms, and are less likely to be content working shit hours at a law firm.
Date: September 29th, 2007 12:21 PM Author: Drunken chartreuse parlor
obviously ppl at T14s go into firms at higher rates because firms will hire them more often. I'm talking about desire to work for a firm, not opportunity.
Date: September 28th, 2007 12:14 AM Author: marvelous internet-worthy quadroon principal's office
that is funny. At CLS the transfers seem to do a lot better. A lot of the original students at CLS aren't cut out for law school and law school exams, but the transfers are, so they tend to do better. Lots of kent scholar transfers. Also, they tend to work harder as 2Ls because they want to prove themselves. Alot of the transfers though are striver douches.
The sadder people are original CLS students who never do better than a B+ their entire career and end up choosing between Stroock and Katten Munchin (aka: unprestigious sweatshops.
Date: September 28th, 2007 12:19 AM Author: demanding famous landscape painting
i actually mostly agree with you said. but i will add that 99% of CLS stop trying after 2L OCI, so kent scholar doesn't mean anything after 1L
but i wholeheartedly agree about transfers are striver douches, and that the CLS idiots who can't even ride the CLS name into a respectable firm are pathetic.
Date: September 28th, 2007 12:26 AM Author: marvelous internet-worthy quadroon principal's office
I actually noticed that the transfers from the good schools are the ones that slack because they had nothing to prove. They already went to a good school and did well. The TTT transfers are the ones with something left to prove (that they can do well at a good school)
Date: September 27th, 2007 11:56 PM Author: burgundy effete new version mood
liquidating prestige to enrich the current partnership. only self-flagellating prestige-obsessed douchetards go there. cravath and cls were meant for each other.
Date: September 28th, 2007 12:17 AM Author: Apoplectic Main People
"too bad this model isn't sustainable."
wtf are you talking about? the douche gunners at cravath are probably going to satisfy clients better than the chillers at DPW. cravath probably finds it more sensible to impress clients than xoxo posters.
Date: September 28th, 2007 12:34 AM Author: mind-boggling sadistic abode
we're talking about different things. I was referring to the fact that they hire bigger and bigger classes filled with retards (hence liquidating their prestige).
if they hire real douche gunners instead of chillers, I don't think they'd be slipping like they are.
XOXOers laugh at Cravath not because it's full of gunners, because it's not, at least not anymore. They laugh because it's actually filled with retards.
Date: September 28th, 2007 12:34 AM Author: Maize nubile cuckoldry property
Of course it's sustainable. The single thing law students know about firms is where Vault ranks them. Just look at all the retards on this board having nonsensical arguments about which firms are "better" than others when they know jack-fucking-shit about them. It will always be at the top of the list and students will continue to go there.
Date: September 28th, 2007 12:36 AM Author: mind-boggling sadistic abode
but that's precisely my point! a few more years of hiring retards from shit schools, and even vault won't rank cravath at 2nd anymore, don't you think?
Date: September 28th, 2007 1:36 AM Author: mind-boggling sadistic abode
but that's assuming that there is something about the firm to know that illustrates quality and prestige, which goes against the entire premise of this discussion, and that is Cravath has been liquidating its prestige by indiscriminately hiring shit students from everywhere.
If you think that Cravath is still hiring quality students, then of course its model is sustainable. But then I don't even understand what we're arguing about anymore
Date: September 28th, 2007 1:44 AM Author: Glittery chest-beating temple corn cake
Of course Cravath is still hiring quality students. You're an idiot if you think otherwise. Is this thread supposed to prove that Cravath isn't hiring quality students?
Date: September 28th, 2007 1:49 AM Author: demanding famous landscape painting
Did you even read my post you fucking retard brainless cravah troll? Cravath hired nearly 10 Fordham students who are obvious retards (trust me, i have MANY classes with these guys this term, and they're STUPID).
Even the original CLS students that Cravath hired, many were wannabe gunners who couldn't even give a decent answer in class for their lives. You would be just as angry as I am at these retards if you're sitting in class with these morons, trust me man
Date: September 28th, 2007 2:11 AM Author: Glittery chest-beating temple corn cake
So what firm are you going to instead? If you got a Wachtell offer, congratulations. If not and you want to stay in New York, Cravath is as good as it gets. Sorry.
loafer, you're obviously ignorant about the NYC market. If you throw in Simpson, why are you leaving out Cleary?
My friend at Columbia says that a lot of the best students there go to Cravath. Among peer NY firms (DPW, S&C, even Simpson though I don't consider it a peer) Cravath is more selective and has a yield that is twice as high.
There are plenty of reasons for not wanting to work in New York or not wanting to work at Cravath. But if you're dead-set on being in New York and you don't get a Wachtell offer, Cravath is about as good as it gets.
Date: September 28th, 2007 5:42 PM Author: burgundy effete new version mood
you're right, cleary belongs in the group as well. i didn't exclude it intentionally.
"My friend at Columbia says that a lot of the best students there go to Cravath."
that's a great reason not to go to cravath. columbia students tend to be huge douchebags.
i go to stanford and i can tell you that almost no one goes to cravath, even though plenty go to new york. it's not for lack of an offer, either; last year, at least seven students in my class got an offer and turned it down. i think one accepted.
"Cravath is more selective and has a yield that is twice as high"
All right loafer, I know that the perception of certain firms varies at certain schools. Cravath obviously doesn't have good yield at SLS. Accordingly, Cravath might be willing to dip lower to get SLS students. So it's understandable that you have a poor view of Cravath -- both as a firm and b/c of it's selectivity.
But you should realize that it's different on the east coast, where Cravath routinely gets top students from CLS, NYU, HLS, and YLS. That's four of the top six law schools in the country.
I'm also annoyed that you keep bashing the firm even though you don't know that much about it --- e.g., you haven't done a callback there. You seem like a bright guy, so you probably could get an offer there; I'm not bashing on that account. But I think there's something to be said about seeing the office and talking to Cravath lawyers that would make your opinions about the firm more meaningful. For example, two very respected posters --- rk938 and Renada ---- have both done callbacks at Cravath and have said very positive things about the firm.
Finally, according to the CLS EIP data that was posted on this site, last year Cravath was 17 acceptances out of 31 offers; DPW was 9/39; S&C was 14/42; Simpson was 20/57; Clearly was 10/46.
It might be true that Cravath screens for people who are particularly ethusiastic about the firm (and the rotation system), so there yield is a bit higher. But it seems that CLS students interviewing with top NY firms would also interview with Cravath, and that the top NY firms are all chasing the 50 or so "top candidates" from CLS. Out of these "top candidates" Cravath is winning the yield war by quite a large margin.
Date: September 28th, 2007 9:17 PM Author: offensive mewling crackhouse
"Finally, according to the CLS EIP data that was posted on this site, last year Cravath was 17 acceptances out of 31 offers; DPW was 9/39; S&C was 14/42; Simpson was 20/57; Clearly was 10/46."
Very interesting data, mainly because it shows how much CLS students (at least your year) have preferences that are widely different from those of HLS students. Only 9/39 at Davis is insane, on the one hand, and 14/42 at S&C and 20/57 at STB is far higher than would be expected. At HLS, I can't remember anyone who picked S&C or STB over DPW (and those who chose between S&C and STB, like at Columbia, were about evenly split).
Date: June 8th, 2008 5:00 PM Author: Umber beady-eyed tattoo
lol at the dipshit who thinks that 'smart' answers in class have anything to do with being successful in the Biglaw grind. You sound like a classic fucking 2L with your dick hard over a few job offers.
but the firm believes that the "cravath system" can turn ignorant first-years into superstar attorneys. they're looking for people they can train to be the best... no one really knows how to practice law just because they pass the bar.
the douches are, of course, a downside to the firm. but you can't say the training isn't awesome.
loafer, if you resort to name-calling or ridiculous hyperbole, it's tough to take your arguments seriously. Look, I know that Cravath isn't the most selective firm in the world at your school. Shit happens. But that doesn't change the fact that Cravath gets great students from CLS/NYU/HLS/YLS.
And back when Cravath announced bonuses, didn't you say that Cravath was shafting their associates who were "some of the most talented in the country"?
they're the people who do doc review so first-year associates don't have to. weird that they're on the site, but i guess the idea is to make them feel like part of the team.
Date: September 29th, 2007 1:39 AM Author: Impertinent Hall
They do the first pass on doc review, but not all of it. Junior associates still have to do document review if their team is working on a case that's in the middle of discovery. But, from talking to juniors at other firms, I would say that Cravath 1st years do less document review (on average).
They do, but your work at Cravath depends on your rotation--one 3rd yr. associate had done no doc review; another said he only did it for a smaller number of docs that had already been edited down.
One T15 firm basically said 1st and 2nd yr work was primarily doc review.
Date: September 29th, 2007 3:10 PM Author: Impertinent Hall
This is correct. Most top firms have discovery attorneys. That's not what helps CSM first-years avoid doc review. It's the rotation system. Some people get away with doing almost none, others do occasionally get pwned with a lot. I stand by my statement that Cravath associates often end up doing much less than their peers at similar firms.
Date: September 28th, 2007 12:21 AM Author: demanding famous landscape painting
no fucking clue. the thing is, they don't even wait to see how these fordham faggots end up doing in CLS (which is already a bad indicator, since CLS students stop trying after 1L, but still), but they hire these transfers BEFORE they even step into CLS. it's fucking disgusting.
Date: September 28th, 2007 12:23 AM Author: Glittery chest-beating temple corn cake
This anti-trolling for Cravath is ridiculous.
Cravath is the second best firm in New York. The best firm happens to be the most selective firm in the country, so good luck getting a job there.
All of the top students at Columbia interview with Cravath. So Cravath effectively has its choice (at least when it comes to extending offers) of the very best Columbia students.
Date: September 28th, 2007 12:39 AM Author: Maize nubile cuckoldry property
And it's important to remember that there aren't anywhere near 40 non-douchebags at CLS, so any group of Columbia students that large will be very douchey.
Date: September 28th, 2007 1:42 PM Author: dead buck-toothed keepsake machete
"The best firm happens to be the most selective firm in the country"
I would dispute this, and so would Vault. Williams & Connolly and Munger are both often ranked as more selective, and anecdotal evidence suggests that Vault's selectivity ranking probably isn't terribly inaccurate in this regard.
Date: September 28th, 2007 10:55 AM Author: burgundy effete new version mood
even worse, that they didn't really exist, and that no one who really matters is impressed that you work at a rancid declining TTT of a firm because you couldn't get a job at a better one.
wachtell destroys them in corporate practice. and in litigation, covington and w&c are both far superior. anyone who goes to nyc specifically to do litigation is a little suspect already; basically you have three lies you can try to sell:
-those other firms are not in nyc and hence you did not apply to them: you're an idiot
-you applied to them and got rejected: you're an idiot
-those other firms offered you a job but you turned them down because you had your heart set on nyc: no one will believe this, and if they did, it still makes you look like an idiot.
Date: September 28th, 2007 2:17 PM Author: burgundy effete new version mood
short-sighted? if anything i am taking the long view about cravath's future. the firm never hires laterals. the quality of its first-year associates is the future quality of the firm.
anyway, whether i look like an idiot seems rather beside the point.
Date: September 29th, 2007 11:41 AM Author: Apoplectic Main People
in 2006, cravath made 31 (17 accepted) offers at CLS. DPW made 38 (9), S&C made 42 (14), and STB made 57 (20). there goes your theory.
face it, you'll never win on your anti-cravath trolling. just like you never convinced anyone that nyu>columbia or that stanford>harvard. in fact, you do a good job persuading in the opposite direction, because it's so transparent how hard you must toil and stretch to make your counter-intuitive and unsubstantiated points.
Date: September 29th, 2007 1:49 AM Author: Impertinent Hall
The quality of the first year associates as a whole has little to do with the future of any firm with a business model that revolves around planned attrition.
Date: September 28th, 2007 10:49 AM Author: cyan pozpig
This is good stuff.
That said, there are a lot people on this thread who vastly overestimate the baseline level of competency necessary to do well in biglaw. And who think a couple points on the lsat makes or breaks an attorney.
Date: September 28th, 2007 10:52 AM Author: lake ticket booth
I have it on good authority that the dude who accepted his offer during the dinner was a plant, he will not be going to Cravath at all. He was paid $200 bucks by his friend on cravath's recruiting committee to make the firm look good and influence people to accept with his above-average social skills.
Date: September 29th, 2007 4:38 AM Author: demanding famous landscape painting
you know what? you're right - the reception dinners at other top firms have been and will be essentially the same. But then i think the proper response would be for me to write a similar thread for each dinner reception, and not omit my tirades altogether. what do you think?
Date: September 29th, 2007 8:35 AM Author: lascivious bearded gay wizard
be my guest if you have enough time but i doubt it will receive as many comments since cravath seems to have some sort of hate following. my only point was that it's clear you are primarily looking only at top firms and the distribution of normal people at top firms (or top law schools) is going to always be shitty. no point in complaining about the cravath dinner when the same thread could probably be as accurate in describing nearly every other pool of recruits for all other v1-5 top nyc firm receptions.
Date: September 29th, 2007 6:21 AM Author: fluffy space
You people are so funny. Once you start working, all of this will seem rather stupid. All of these firms are good firms, and you will be trained well. The fact that your firm is going to have to hire some douches to get the work done is not going to make their business model implode.
Date: September 29th, 2007 10:35 AM Author: exhilarant smoky theater volcanic crater
You people talking about Cravath's yield are pretty funny. This summer I shared an office a Yale kid who let me look at the YLS OCI stats just for fun. At Yale, Cravath's yield is about half of DPW's and is lower than S&C, Cleary, and even Debevoise.
CLS's Cravath yield is through the roof because people who go to CLS are ignorant prestige hounds who think Vault means something. At HYS where the students actually know stuff about firms and can get offers from most places they want, Cravath strikes out a lot.
Date: September 29th, 2007 11:41 AM Author: gaped hell useless brakes
If that's true, it hasn't been in past years. Both CSM and DPW have an identical number of Yale students: 25. Coincidentally, they also have the exact same number of partners: 9.
They are also nearly identical in size (DP=477 v. C=484).
Date: September 29th, 2007 11:51 AM Author: gaped hell useless brakes
Certainly you have to make some assumptions: that people accept their offers (most at my school do), that a similar number of offers are issued (they are to cls students), and that none of these hires are laterals (which you know they aren't at cravath; don't know how extensively dpw hires laterally).
Date: September 29th, 2007 12:11 PM Author: richard clock
2005 is recent, and that 1 for 16 is awful. it is cravath who was forced to change the goalposts by going from 16 to 31 offers at yls in order to get some people.
Date: September 29th, 2007 9:20 PM Author: offensive mewling crackhouse
Why only 31 offers at YLS? At least 80% of students at YLS would get offers from Cravath if they were at Columbia (where they would be in the top 10 to 20%). If Cravath only makes 30 offers at YLS, it is no surprise that there are few acceptances, because many Yale 2Ls can get and would much rather go to the most selective DC firms.
Unfortunately, I can't tell you what school I go to, but I am looking at my school's OCI data and that site, and either my school's data is wrong, or many of the numbers on that site are wrong. They do not match up. Off by more than just 1 or 2.
I'm not willing to risk being outted for the sake of proving my point. Sorry. I'm telling you, the data for my school is wrong. I have no reason to lie. Believe me or not. *shrugs*
Date: September 29th, 2007 11:55 AM Author: Apoplectic Main People
yeah, people supporting cravath point to solid data (substantiated data like OCI stats). anti-cravath trolls insist on retarded anecdotes and meaningless surveys.
Date: June 8th, 2008 2:23 PM Author: Very Tactful Vibrant Tank Doctorate
I thought OP was flame too. But I can confirm that Cravath is crawling with pathetic Fordham faggots / Fordham faggot transfers and CLS median morons this summer
Date: June 8th, 2008 5:11 PM Author: talking forum old irish cottage
Poor XOXO trash translated: "Wait a minute, big law firms in New York City hire heavily from the best regional law school in New York City? But didn't Fordham students on average get one less question right per section on the LSAT? It's almost like half of Fordham students have the same opportunities in New York as three quarters of the Columbia students. I didn't scrape my way into Yale and Columbia on hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars of loans to get the same job as some rich New York kid. My dad was right! I should have just been a coal-miner."
Date: June 8th, 2008 5:30 PM Author: Duck-like salmon codepig
ROFL. What pathetic faggot Fordham trolling. I'm sorry that you're a retard who could only get into Fordham, but trolling like this really makes me throw up in my mouth.