Stanford's recent announcement regarding On-Campus Interviewing (OCI) shifts the timeline for law students, scheduling interviews from May 5 to 9, prior to the start of summer internships. This growing trend among law firms to conduct interviews earlier forces students to make career decisions without any practical experience or knowledge of their legal preferences. This procedural change raises concerns about the efficacy of the hiring process, suggesting that the motivation for summer programs may center more around securing future hires rather than providing substantive training or evaluation for students.
These days, firms are locking in hires before students have had their first real deadline, before they've figured out what areas of law they like...
OCI has never exactly been the gold standard of meaningful hiring, but there was some semblance of rigor.
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