I am roughly 4 months away from finishing my clerkship in the US District Court, and am looking for a big law litigation associate position in NY or DC, but have had only a few interviews and have yet to receive an offer. Any advice?

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Try Sussman in NY, Boies Schiller, Kirkland NY and DC, Quinn (but you might die), WilmerHale, Davis Polk, Paul Weiss, and Jones Day NY (unless Jones Day DC publicity appeals to you). These all tend to prefer clerks. I just went through this process and am ultimately returning to the firm that I was at before, but I got interviews at most of these places (I didn't apply to all of the places mentioned). For reference, I am clerking in a non-SD/EDNY district court and graduated 2018 t14 with a 3.5 gpa. If you had bad grades (I assume not given that you landed a clerkship), cast a wider net as LA1 said. Reach out to associate friends at those firms and let them know you've applied so that they can reach out to the recruiting contact to flag your application. Finally, some of these firms move really slowly. I sent Williams & Connolly an application, nothing. Then they reach out to me two weeks later asking what my timeline was.. I withdrew my application because I wanted to be done with the process and was happy with my decision to return to my former firm. Apply there if you are willing to wait more than a month, which is how much time a clerking friend mentioned it took from initial application to receiving the offer. Another example with one other top firm that I applied to, I heard nothing. Then, I reached out to a partner in the office that had lateraled from another firm (thus less homegrown loyalty) and asked to learn more about his experience at the firm compared to his prior firm as I was deciding where I wanted to land after my clerkship. He was happy to have the call, and at the end of a great call (I prepared for it like an interview), I ~then~ told him that I applied and hadn't heard back from the recruiting people. I heard back from them a few days later, had an interview the next week, and an offer a couple days after the interview. One final thought, a lot of clerks are on the cycle you are on (September), so firms may be waiting to get rejections before they put of more offers. Actually, one more thought, if you start to feel desperate, it will show through in your interviews. Don't be cocky, but be confident. You are in a small percentage of lawyers who land federal court clerkships. You're qualified for any of these firms. Confidence is a litigation skill, and if you don't come off as confident in your interviews, then that could be an issue.

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Cast a wider net, plenty of folks are hiring. Levine Lee LLP and BraunHagey & Borden LLP are both hiring and have a strong clerkship preference for new hires, I’d send both firms an application ASAP.

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I started job hunting last year (for a clerkship ending in Aug 22) and set up a bunch informational interviews with people in the region I'm going too. Some were via connections from my judge and other judges here, others were straight up cold emails to partners in practice areas I was interested in- "You seem like you do interesting work, I'd love to chat about it sometime"

I had very positive responses and ended up talking with someone at about every firm in the area doing the kind of work I want to do. Most of them expressed interest but wanted to wait until it was closer to the end of my clerkship. One of them led to an official interview, firm creating a job for me, and them making me an offer.

So my suggestion is to leverage court connections, friend connections, and that court email address to be notable in the inbox, and ask to talk about their practice and firm. If you talk to enough people (make a spreadsheet), someone will probably make you an offer.

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I wouldn’t worry yet. Maybe mid June I’d start to get nervous. I talked with a recruiter in February who helped calm me down. It might be time to start a relationship with a recruiter but just know that will make you a more expensive hire and might eat part of the clerkship bonus a firm might be willing to offer

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