Firms recently began conducting on-campus interviews at Texas law schools, and 14 of the state’s largest 25 firms say they plan to hire as many or more summer associates for 2012 than they did for 2011. The firms are on campuses primarily to recruit students beginning their second year of law school to work at the firms during the summer preceding their third year of school. Large firms tend to hire most of their full-time associates from among the students who work for them during the summer.
“We are anticipating six total summer associates, which would be for permanent jobs beginning in the fall of 2013,” says Kitty Henry, co-chair of law school recruiting for Dallas-based Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr. Munsch Hardt is one of six large firms planning to bring in more summer associates in 2012 than it did this year. The firm did not have a 2011 summer associate class because it had hired four first-year associates to begin this fall, from the summer class of 2010, and wanted to allow time for “them to become part of the firm and take a breather to absorb that capacity,” Henry says.
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