Big Law Returns to Law School for Summer Hiring in ‘Steady’ Numbers

By Elizabeth Olson, Big Law Business

August may be beach time for many, but for law students it’s a serious month to get their careers on the right trajectory.

Second-year students are gathering their nicest work clothes, real shoes – flip flops forbidden – and heading back to campus to undergo what may be the most important interviews of their work life. Law firm recruiters will be sizing them up and deciding whether to offer them an internship next summer, a position that — with hard work and luck — will lead to their first job in Big Law.

“This is an event that ...