The firm typically has about two to three summer associates in the Chicago office with the typical offers for a first-year position in the fall of the following year after the law student finishes school.
Lately, the firm has found it so easy to attract first-year associates in Chicago that weren’t a part of its summer program that it decided it was needless effort to host the summer associates and then be forced to shoehorn hiring plans into the 18-month wait for new associates, said Jon Froemel, the firm’s hiring partner for the Chicago office.
