NALP has announced a one-year trial rule beginning Fall 2008 to require 2Ls to respond within 45 days to a law firm’s summer job offer (or December 30, whichever comes first). If the student does not respond within 45 days, the offer will lapse. (The old guidelines allowed students to hold on to five offers until Oct. 15; four offers until Nov. 1; and three offers until Dec. 1; and one offer thereafter.)
