Summer associate class sizes may not be back to their lavish pre-recession levels, but one element of the law firm recruiting process appears to have returned in full force: the rate at which summer associates eligible to receive offers of full-time employment are getting them.
An Am Law Daily survey of 17 national firms that employed at least 20 second-year law students this summer found an average offer rate of 97 percent, up from the 95 percent rate at which the same firms extended job offers to eligible students last year. Among those firms, that translates to an average of 62 students per firm getting offers this year, up from 47 in 2010.
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