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New NALP Deadline for Accepting Employment Offers: 45 Days

By Patrick

From the ABA Journal:

Under commonly accepted recruiting guidelines, second-year law students have been able to ponder several summer associate offers for months at a time. No more.

New guidelines adopted by NALP for a trial period now require second-years to decide within 45 days whether to accept a law firm's offer of summer employment, reports the National Law Journal. NALP's board decided earlier this month to adopt the 45-day deadline for one year, and will consider making the rule change permanent if it is well-received.

Link here, background information here.

Updated: Reading the text of the rules, it looks like the rule applies to permanent offers as well, and not just summer offers.  And the precise deadline is 45 days, or Dec. 30th, whichever occurs first. Offers made after Dec. 15th should be left open for two weeks.

Full post as published by Nuts & Boalts on February 23, 2008 (boomark / email).