PDLG COMMITTEE INTERVIEWS AND DECISIONS

Representatives of the participating PDLG law firms and legal departments (the “PDLG Committee”) will conduct interviews similar to on-campus interviews, although the interviews will be somewhat longer. Those interviews will all take place on Saturday, February 13, 2010 . If all application materials have been provided, students will be notified of their selection, and of the time and place of the interview by email. If you are told by your school committee that you were chosen by it, or if you applied directly to the PDLG, and you have not heard from the PDLG by February 11, please contact us by email to PDLG1L@comcast.net.

At the conclusion of the day of interviews, the PDLG Committee will select those candidates who, in its judgment, based on the application, interview and any other relevant information, are the most qualified, are most likely to succeed as summer associates, and have a genuine interest in establishing a legal career in Philadelphia. Each selected candidate will then be randomly assigned to an employer for an interview. Of course, you will not be assigned to an employer where there would be a conflict of interest.

Each employer has committed to interviewing three candidates and to hiring at least one. However, there is no assurance that each law school will be represented among the summer clerks and, based simply on the numbers, not all those interviewed by employers will be offered jobs.

Employers will schedule interviews within a week after being notified of the candidates assigned to them and will make decisions within a few days of the conclusion of their interviews. The NALP Principles and Standards for Law Placement and Recruitment Activities provide that all offers to law students should remain open for at least two weeks after the date made. However, because the continued success of the PDLG Summer 1L Program depends on filling all available slots, and because often there are several students relying on initial offerees to make prompt decisions to accept or decline their offers, we heavily encourage all those students to whom offers are made to respond as soon as possible, preferably within a week of receiving the offer.

Participating PDLG law firms have also agreed that if they make an offer outside the PDLG Program to a student who is matched with another PDLG Program for interviewing, the firm will keep the student’s offer open until the PDLG process is complete for that student.