Bloomberg Law
July 27, 2018, 1:30 PM UTC

Orrick Summer Associates ‘Hack’ Recruiting Process

Stephanie Russell-Kraft
Stephanie Russell-Kraft
Special Correspondent

Most Big Law firms spend their summers wooing law students with lunches, parties, and other firm outings. This year, Orrick tried something different: a hackathon.

On July 17, the firm gathered all of its summer associates in Silicon Valley and New York and asked them to brainstorm ways to ease legal education and summer recruiting.

Six teams of summer associates spent the day coming up with proposals to ease the transition from law school to Big Law.

The winning idea, an online repository of firm data, aims to streamline the summer recruiting process, which many students find overly stressful and ...

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