I was forwarded an e-mail that one of our upcoming summer associates sent to a young associate she's been corresponding with: "Will the firm ask to see my grades from this fall?" She thinks she did particularly poorly and is worried we're going to see the grades, decide she isn't the student we thought she was, and rescind the offer.
The good news for her is that, no, we don't usually ask to see 2L grades. It's too late for us to do anything about them anyway. If we were to rescind someone's offer, the impact on campus would be disastrous. We'd be "the firm that rescinds offers" and no one would choose us. (Almost as bad as "the firm with no box seats at Dodger Stadium.") We know that. We accept it. We also know that students stop trying once they have their offers, and there's nothing our clients like better than a set of expensive lawyers who can do good work when they feel like it really counts, but when they think it doesn't matter, they do crappy work instead.
The bad news for her is that everyone will know she sent that e-mail. Every year, students fail to realize that the lawyers they meet during the process are not their friends. And even if an associate has the best of intentions, there are times, alone in your office, when the craving for some sort of connection, with anyone, is strong enough that it doesn't seem like a bad idea to forward to a couple of colleagues down the hall that e-mail the summer associate sent you, just to share a laugh. And once you send it to a couple of people, they send it to a few more, and eventually it's all over the firm.
So everyone knows about the e-mail where you asked whether romantic relationships ever develop between summer associates and regular lawyers at the firm. And we're waiting for you.
The good news for her is that, no, we don't usually ask to see 2L grades. It's too late for us to do anything about them anyway. If we were to rescind someone's offer, the impact on campus would be disastrous. We'd be "the firm that rescinds offers" and no one would choose us. (Almost as bad as "the firm with no box seats at Dodger Stadium.") We know that. We accept it. We also know that students stop trying once they have their offers, and there's nothing our clients like better than a set of expensive lawyers who can do good work when they feel like it really counts, but when they think it doesn't matter, they do crappy work instead.
The bad news for her is that everyone will know she sent that e-mail. Every year, students fail to realize that the lawyers they meet during the process are not their friends. And even if an associate has the best of intentions, there are times, alone in your office, when the craving for some sort of connection, with anyone, is strong enough that it doesn't seem like a bad idea to forward to a couple of colleagues down the hall that e-mail the summer associate sent you, just to share a laugh. And once you send it to a couple of people, they send it to a few more, and eventually it's all over the firm.
So everyone knows about the e-mail where you asked whether romantic relationships ever develop between summer associates and regular lawyers at the firm. And we're waiting for you.
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