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[Friendly Pre-2L]

How did you decide which firms to drop with?  
What law school do you attend?  
What is your background?

I'll start:  
I used my 35 drops for the NY and Chicago firms (that don't do OCI at my school).
I attend Emory.
I came straight through from undergrad.  I majored in Chemical Engineering and did four summer intership gigs, and did 2 years of particle science resesarch in undergrad.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I get interviews!

[Friendly Pre-2L]

oh and anyone who has been through the program before, please give some hints.

[larkas]

I wish you had asked for advice before the firm drop.

I just graduated last week from The John Marshall Law School in Chicago. I attended the program for the last two years.

You should have diversified your firm choice. Most resumes go to the big firms in NYC and Chicago. If you wanted a lotn of interviews, you should have selected smaller firms and diversified your geographic search.

Also you need to ask yourself a few questions:

Do you want to do prosecution, licensing, or litigation?
What size frim do you want to work for?
How many hours a week do you want to work? Generally, bigger firms and frims in bigger cities have bigger billable hours? Is it worth your sanity/preventing overburn to work  less hours and earn a little less?
How many other technical areas was the firm looking for? Generally, the firms with less choices are more likely to give you an interview.

Some hints:

Make sure you are not late. They will give away your interviews.

There is a nice place to eat and get away from the craziness of all the law students across the courtyard. It is much cheaper than the hotel (think local prices, not tourist prices) and there is a copy shop there too. Just follow the hallway into the office plaza and go through the hallway maze to get there.

Remember the AIPLA Job Fair, if you are a member, in DC in October/November.

If you have any other questions, please post.

[update]

11 interviews and 2 wait-lists.... keeping my fingers crossed

[PhD_IP]

Um, I don't understand what "drops" are?  What is this process??? (Am just applying for Fall '06 entering law school class.)

[PLIP'ng]

resume "drops" - old school term for when you would actually drop off your resume in a folder for a law firm.  of course, now everything is online.  but it's still called resume drops.

[PLIP'ng]

process is:

1)  your CSO will give you details on PLIP in february.
2)  you will pay loyola $35
3)  you will create an account w/ loyola's CSO
4)  you will upload your resume
5)  you will drop your resume with 35 firms (april)
6)  you will forget about plip until mid june when you hear back.  you will log back on to loyola's website to see where you got interviews, if any
7)  you will book a hotel room at an overpriced hotel next to o'hare, and book a plane ticket to chicago.
 you will show up and interview, and will be there by 8:30 AM to check in even if your first interview isn't until 3PM
9)  you will pray for call backs

word on the street - 1700 people applied for plip.  MANY people didn't get a single interview or wait-list.  the law firms are looking generally for top 10%, top quarter, or top 1/3 grades depending your tier of school.  top tier schools, the firms dig deeper.  just remember that top tier isn't what USNWR calls top tier but what the firms consider top tier.  so firm 1 might consider top tier YHS, firm 2 might consider it the t14, firm 3 might consider it the t25, and firm 4 might actually consider it the t50.  many are also looking for excellent engineering/science credentials.  finally, bust ass spring semester because this is entirely dependent on semester 1 grades.

and also remember that a person with a 3.5/MIT and top 1/3 at Columbia will be more competitive than a 3.7/Sh*tty State U/top 10% at Tier 3.  so diversify your applications like the above poster said.

[IPLVR]

I analogize the experience at the PLIP to a meat market.  The firms go there to get the "hot" backgrounds they seek - read EEs and PhDs. It is a good way to get 35 resumes sent to firms and well worth it.  I personally did not get much out of it.