On-campus interviewing or OCI doesn’t quite pack the punch it used to. Fewer than 13 percent of new permanent law graduate jobs in 2011 were obtained through the annual fall whirl of law firm summer-associate recruiting. That was down from more than 24 percent in 2008, according to data from NALP, formerly the National Association for Law Placement.
Of the 2011 law grads who landed jobs at law firms, just 21 percent obtained their positions through interviewing, compared with almost 37 percent in 2008. The numbers were the latest available.
