Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day.
The only reason there’s a feeling that you must move early or you’re going to miss out is that all the firms are artificially constraining their pipeline to a handful of schools. It’s that FOMO effect.
— Nikia Gray, executive director of the National Association for Law Placement, commenting on Biglaw’s ever-accelerating recruiting timeline, which now has firms courting students during their first semester of law school. As one Michigan Law student told Reuters, “It’s like, you don’t even know what a tort is and you’re cold emailing someone at Latham & Watkins.”
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