THE ALI METHOD Know your archetype
01 LSAT02 Admissions03 Law school04 Recruiting05 Bar

Legal recruiting and placement

Your firm list, live

Every firm you are chasing, and where each one stands.

One board for the whole search. Move a firm from researching to submitted to offer, keep its deadline next to your own exams, and hold the name of everyone you have spoken to in the same place the next letter gets written from.

FirmStatusDeadlineContact / notes
Click a status to move it forward, shift-click to step back. Your list saves on this device.

What sits behind each row.

The board is the surface. Underneath, every firm you add is wired to your own record, so the work per employer is drafted rather than guessed.

Your policy
Your school's actual rules on when you may speak to employers, when first year counselling opens, when the interview program runs. Read from the school and kept current, not inferred from a forum.
Per employer
Resume and cover letter drafted for that firm, from your record. A letter that could go to forty places reliably gets you none of them.
People
Who you spoke to, when, and what was said, kept against the firm so the next letter can refer to it truthfully.
Collisions
Deadlines tracked against your own exam dates, because they overlap and you will have to choose.
No fixed calendar
There is no national recruiting date any more. NALP withdrew its schedule in 2018, schools set their own now, and most advice still in print expired that year. The board works off your school's window, not a date that stopped being real.

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Where this stands

The board is live. The firm data fills in this fall.

You can build and keep your list now. The verified school windows and firm programmes load in for first year recruiting this fall, starting with the schools whose policies we can actually confirm rather than all of them at once.

Until then the useful thing we can do is tell you what your own school's policy says and when your window opens. That part exists today and it costs nothing.

On the platform

The part that used to mean knowing somebody.

An unwritten calendar quietly helps the students who can call a lawyer in the family, and costs everyone else. The platform hands every student the same advantage: people who have already sat exactly where you are sitting.

Matched to you
Alumni and practising lawyers paired to you by your school, your target market, and the kind of work you are aiming at, rather than a directory you send cold notes into.
They ran this loop
Every mentor went through the same recruiting your school runs now, so what you hear is about your real window and your real employers, not a forum's guess.
A warm introduction
Contact comes with a name attached and a reason to reply, which is the whole difference between a message that gets read and one that does not.
Kept with the firm
Who you spoke to and what they said sits next to that firm on your board, so the next conversation and the next letter build on the last one.