It's job interviewing season here at UCLAW, as at all other US law schools. Which brings to mind two true stories from my days at as a University of Virginia law student interviewing for jobs with law firms:
- I had an on campus interview in Charlottesville with the Washington DC office of a law firm whose initials are CW&T on a Monday. On Tuesday, I received a rejection letter - whose postmark indicated it had been mailed Monday evening from Charlottesville. Ouch.
- A week or so after an on campus interview with the Washington DC office law firm whose initials then were H&S (and now are HSAW), I got two letters. One invited me up to the DC office for a call back. The other was a rejection letter. I called up the hiring partner, who had signed both letters, to ask which one was the right one. After a lengthy and rather pregnant pause, I was informed that the rejection letter was the real one. Not quite as much of an ouchie, but still ....