PRIVATESECTOR101:RECRUITINGLANDSCAPE

October28,2019

...whattheydo ...howtheyhireGOALS:UNDERSTANDING...

...whatyoucandonow

ADJUST

YOUR

LENS

PrivateSector~22%

PracticeSetting

PrivateSector~74%

PracticeSetting

1LSUMMER

2LSUMMER

WHATDOWEMEANBY“PRIVATESECTOR”?

LawFirms Business

In-house

CounselBanking Consulting Corporate

BYTHENUMBERS

Setting Type # %oftotaljobs

Business

Barrequired 988 3.3%

JDadvantage 2020 6.7%

LawFirms 16202 54.1%

Setting # %oftotaljobs

Business 23 3.7%

LawFirms 407 65.6%

national(2018)* georgetown(2018)

*basedonNALPClassof2018SummaryReport

Therearelotsofjobsintheprivatesector;manyofthoseareinlawfirms.

DEEPERDIVE:LAWFIRMS

STRUCTURE

Partner

Counsel

Associate

WHATTHEYDO...•  Family

• DUI

•  Personalinjury

•  Immigration

•  Criminaldefense

•  Trusts&estates

• Medicalmalpractice

•  Insurance

•  Businessplanning

• Antitrust

•  Employment

•  Complexcivillitigation

• White-collarcrime

•  Cross-borderM&A

•  Regulatory

•  Capitalmarkets

LargerheadcountSmallerheadcount

CorporateclientsIndividualclients

*gen

erallyspe

aking*

WHERETHEYDOIT...

Everyw

here!*

International

LocalIndustries

MarketSize

SIZE&FOCUS

Small Mid-sized Large

BoutiquePlaintiff

(PublicInterest)BigCorporate

Clients

biglaw

BYTHENUMBERS

FirmSize

National %offirmjobs Georgetown %offirmjobs

Solo 323 2.0% 1 0.2%1-10 5556 33.9% 10 2.5%11-25 1763 10.7% 9 2.2%26-50 1047 6.4% 6 1.5%51-100 849 5.2% 16 3.9%101-250 1019 6.2% 15 3.7%251-500 966 5.9% 40 9.8%501+ 4773 29.1% 310 76.2%

national*andgeorgetown(2018)

*basedonNALPClassof2018SummaryReport

ENTRY-LEVELFIRMJOBS

Firmsvarywidelybysize,practicefocus,staffingmodels,andhiringpatterns.

DEEPERDIVE:BIGLAW

WHATTHEYDO...

Regulatory

Transactional

Litigation

STRUCTURE

Partners

Counsel

Associates

Recruiters

WHATSTUDENTSTELLUS...

Whygo?

Training

Optionality

WorkPay

Certainty

HIRING-OVERVIEW

SA

OCI

Contactsport

City SAoffers2018(allschools)*

NYC 4931

DC 968

Chicago 554

LA/OC 363

SanFrancisco 303

Boston 231

Houston 272

Dallas 146*basedonNALPPerspectiveson2018LawStudentRecruiting

Largefirmshireearlierandwithmoreregularity;smallerfirmsrecruitonamoreadhocbasis.

HIRING-TIMINGFa

ll&Winter

Research,Explore&Connect

Sprin

g Educate,Narrow&Connect

Summer

Resumé,Receptions,Interviews&Connect

HIRING–WHATDOLARGEFIRMSWANT?

1.  Academicexcellence–grades;research/writingability

2.  Workexperience–relatedknowledge;professionalskills;ownership;1Lsummer

3.  “Commercialintelligence”–understand&contributetotheirbusiness;practiceareaawareness;clientfocus

4.  Diversity–rangeofbackgroundsandviewpoints

5.  Engagement–consistentinteractionwithfirm

6.  Interviewpresence–fit;presentation;understandinglawfirmculture/expectations

PLAYBOOK

engagewithfirmattorneys

learnaboutfirmpracticesandculture

starttodifferentiatebetweenfirms

rememberit’satwo-waystreet