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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]1) Spend the next few months (i.e. all of spring semester) showing up at firms personally with my application materials, in a suit, and requesting to talk to the hiring partner. They will likely either put me off, or tell me flat out no. I should ignore that and continue to show up personally once a week and reiterate my interest face-to-face. I should follow that weekly stalking visit up with phone calls/emails every week, basically harassing them but politely[/quote]

This is an insane plan.  A better idea would be to look for people who graduated from your law school, are at a firm, and are relatively junior.  Reach out and ask them if they would be willing to meet for coffee to talk about how they found their position and any advice they may have.  [/quote]

I am in charge of hiring at a place where lots of young lawyers want to work.  This is less crazy than the stalking idea, but I have to say that, if I met with everyone who asked me for an "informational" interview, I would never get any work done.  I love helping young people find jobs, and used to do this with pretty much anyone who asked, but, as the job market has gotten worse, the number of requests is just out of hand.  OP needs to understand that even this may be annoying to those he/she will ask.  The bottom line is that there are lots of highly qualified lawyers with experience who are looking for work.  I really can't tell someone who is fresh out of school how to compete with those people, because they can't.  My advice is the same that I give to those who call me -- take any job/internship you can get that is remotely close to the field you want to be in, and do the very best job you can, and hope you impress someone.  [/quote]

+1. To add, if you are going to do the informational interview, please follow up with a thank you email and whatever you said you would do. I met with a law student from my alma mater who wanted me to connect him with the GC of a large organization near the law school. I asked him to send me his materials and I would be happy to make the intro.  I didn't hear back from him for a month. Needless to say, I did not make the intro. [/quote]

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