SF!!!!!

Chicago is...
...getting rid of me for three weeks to try and recruit me forever.

My firm overhired for the summer. We have 60 summer associates in a 200-250 lawyer firm. They didn't overhire for future associates, however. (If that makes any sense) By the time my class starts in the fall of 2009, Skadden Chicago will have moved to new offices down the street that are much bigger than our current offices. Meaning they'll have room to chain all sorts of new associates to their desks by the time we would start full-time.

In the meantime, they are hiring lots of summer associates in anticipation of that move but they don't quite have the space/work for us yet. Or at least this what I guess they're doing because the firm has decided to give us the opportunity to travel to various other foreign and domestic offices for 2-3 week stints. While originally I really wanted to go to Moscow or Brussels or Hong Kong, it turns out you can only go abroad if you are interested in transactional work. And I'm only interested in litigation. In fact the idea of transactional work sometimes makes me break out in hives.

Enter the subject line of this post. I get to go to San Francisco for three weeks in July!!!! I've never been and I'm very excited. Best of all, I've also never met the infamous Mr. San Francisco, and quite frankly, I don't believe the man has gone through enough hazing to officially become a pseudo-member of the family. I take my duties in this area very seriously, even if the rest of my family doesn't. He better watch out.