Cornell Law Recruiting Policies

Updated April 1, 2023

A. Provisions Regarding CLS 2Ls/Class of 2025 Students who are applying for 2024 2L Summer Associate Positions

Offer Type	Offer Deadline
Summer Offer made to 2L NOT previously employed by the firm	Remains open for at least 14 calendar days following: a) date of the offer letter or b) August 4, 2023, the last day of the Virtual Job Fair (“AJF”), whichever comes later.
Summer Offer made to 2L previously employed by the firm as a 1L summer associate	Remains open for at least 14 calendar days from the last day of AJF.

CLS 2Ls are permitted to hold up to three offers of employment in any one state at one time.

B. Provisions Regarding CLS 3Ls/Class of 2023 Students, who are applying for 2023 Entry-Level Associate Positions

Offer Type	Offer Deadline
Full-Time Offer made to 3L previously employed by the firm	Remains open until at least October 1 of the candidate’s final year of law school. If the offer is made after September 17, offer should remain open for at least 14 calendar days.
Full-Time Offer made to 3L NOT previously employed by the firm	Offer should remain open for at least 14 calendar days following date of the offer letter.

C. Provisions Regarding CLS 2L, 3L Private & Public Interest Search (applicable to all law firm employers)

Employers are encouraged to grant an extension until April 1, 2023 for 2L and 3L students who are actively pursuing positions with public interest or government organizations. In such circumstances, 2L and 3L students may hold open only one offer and affirm in writing that the employer’s offer is the only private sector offer that the student is holding.
 

D. Provisions Regarding CLS 1Ls/Class of 2025

Employers and first-year law students should not initiate contact with one another, and employers should not initiate or conduct formal one-on-one recruiting contact with students, including applications, interviews, or offers to first year students, before December 1.