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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Aquagirl = the Clearly Goatlips Cleary Gottlieb summer associate who stripped down to her underwear and dove into the Hudson River. At a summer associate event. At night. Had to be rescued.[/quote]

And Aquagirl got an offer.[/quote]

She got a cold offer from Cleary if i remember right.[/quote]

What’s a cold offer?[/quote]

Historically law students tracked what percentage of summer associates from a firm did/not receive an offer for a job after law school as a good metric of whether to apply to that firm. To avoid looking bad to the next crop of applicants, firms would “cold offer” summers they didn’t like, essentially saying “you can come back but we really don’t want you to.”  That way the firm could say they gave 100% of the class offers, but signal to certain people they should really find a different job. [/quote]
What happens when you take the offer? Aquagirl is still a lawyer in NYC.[/quote]

I hadn’t heard about cold offers but given that like half of associates hate their firm anyway, k can totally see someone taking a cold offer.  It’s not like it’s a love match.  “We don’t want you but we will pay you for some period of time until we guilt trip you out.”  “I don’t like you either and I will happily spend the money you pay me and will be basically immune to guilt tripping.”  It’s a little sociopathic to go where you’re clearly not wanted but on the other hand, it’s sort of perfect.  [/quote]

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