Do you talk to every law student who reaches out to you? I have recently gotten so many reach outs from law students, none of whom I have anything in common with other than the law school and none of whom appear to want to practice in the area I do. I really don’t want to talk to all of these people but should I be talking to them?

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I use the interest in my practice as a filter, generally. But I went to a school with practically non-existent big law placement and am usually happy to talk to students about my strategy for landing the role. I think I feel more obligation to pay forward all the people that took the time to talk with me. If your school has high big law stats, I wouldn’t feel obligated to speak to anyone that doesn’t stand out to you.

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My law school has reasonably high big law stats and it is in the city where I practice, which is probably part of why so many people reach out. I guess I feel less of an obligation to pay it forward because no one talked to me when I was a law student (I didn’t reach out to anyone either though because I don’t think I even knew that was a thing I was supposed to do). I basically just showed up for my interview.

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I try to screen these to make sure the person genuinely respects my time and effort. No calls on weekends, pre-set time limits for the calls, and if there is no connection, I keep the call short. If they show that they took time to look at my profile and LinkedIn, and ask thoughtful questions, that shows effort on their part, for example. You only should do what you feel comfortable with.

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I used to talk to all of them, but that was more because I didn’t get that many (satellite office). I think, however, a lot of them really just want you for your referral, which has kind of turned me off from the process. I try to maybe now only do the ones that sound genuine and/or have an interest on what I do specifically.

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