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Literary Essay Assignment as a Recruitment Tool?

By Gerry Riskin on July 27, 2017
Posted in Law Firm Human Resources

Bloomberg’s Big Law blog reports on an intriguing hiring tactic recently deployed by the intellectual property boutique Fisch Sigler LLP of Washington, D.C.

Applicants for the position of associate at the firm were invited to submit an essay on the subject of “Whether Nobel Prize winning novelist Saul Bellow deserved his 1976 Nobel Prize for…

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