David B. Wilkins on firm recruitment

David B. Wilkins spoke to David Lat in Bloomberg about law firm recruiting and the timetable moving up year after year. “In each successive year since the pandemic, recruiting has grown more decentralized and started taking place earlier. Today, most summer offers are obtained through direct application by students, not a school-organized process,” Lat writes. Wilkins responded to the idea that law firms could set an agreement to move the process later. “Firms would have antitrust issues if they had a lateral agreement,” Wilkins told Lat.