On-Campus Recruiting: Interview & Hiring Process
Visiting Your Law School: Each Sheppard Mullin office selects the schools where it wishes to have a full-day schedule, or where it will share the schedule with another Sheppard Mullin office. If you are interested in a particular office that is not represented at your law school, or if you are notified that our schedules are full, you are welcome to drop off your resume and transcript with a Sheppard Mullin interviewer during the on-campus visit.
Receiving A Callback: Our on-campus interviewers extend callback invitations as soon as possible after the interview day. However, if you interview with an attorney from an office that is not your preferred location, the attorney will forward your resume to the desired office, in which case it may take a little longer for you to hear back from us.
If you receive a callback from one of our offices, please contact the local Recruiting Coordinator to notify her or him as to whether you will be accepting the callback, and your best estimate of the date that you prefer to interview. If you are flying in to visit one of our offices, the firm will provide a hotel room for you for the evening before or after your interviews, depending on the timing of your interview schedule. We usually share travel expenses with other firms being seen on a callback trip.
So that the firm does not over-hire, our attorneys are given authority to extend only a certain number of callbacks and often have difficult decisions to make. We attempt to notify students by mail within 10 days of the on-campus interview if they are not receiving a callback. Please keep in mind that, like many firms, we may put additional students "on hold" following a campus visit if our interviewers exceed their quota.
The Callback: Students will usually interview with 4-5 attorneys in our office and have lunch or dinner with 2 additional attorneys.
After The Callback: Each office's Recruiting Committee meets periodically to review evaluations of students that have visited their office. We strive to notify students of the results of their callback as soon as possible. If you receive an offer, you will usually have 45 days to consider it in accordance with NALP guidelines. In the meantime, we will try not to bother you with too many follow-up phone calls, but we do want you to accept our offer!
Sheppard Mullin is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, veteran status, all other characteristics prohibited by law, or gender identity and/or expression.
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