USA: Der starre Bewerberterminplan bekommt Risse

For years, the recruitment of junior lawyers has followed the academic calendar. Just before the start of the 2L year, students interviewed for summer jobs (typically, on campus) with law firms, collecting "call back" invitations and choosing to pursue further interviews with some, but often not all, of the firms that extended invitations. By the holidays, in the early winter, most 2Ls had summer jobs. Such positions generally led to offers of permanent employment, which typically began near the start of the next academic year (after the graduates took the bar examination in the summer). The regularity of that schedule may be gone. Many law schools are moving up their dates for on-campus interviews to August in an effort to improve students' chances of acquiring precious call-back interviews. At the same time, some firms are seriously considering a switch to springtime recruiting to help them more accurately gauge their recruiting needs. And many firms have "deferred" start dates for incoming class…