I’m not going to spend much time on my actual interviews besides saying that they went well, and after a point it’s hard to distinguish in my mind between one lawyer at one firm and another at a different one. The offices look the same and things start to blur. I do, however, want to elaborate slightly on the hand lotion incident mentioned below.
Contrary to Ian’s suggestion, there are not puddles of hand lotion sitting in the street in Portland (I’m up here interviewing at the moment, not in LA). I was walking between firms #2 and #3 for the day–about an eight block walk. I had stopped at a street corner to wait for the light to change when a car drove around the corner. I heard a pop, looked down, and I was covered from the knee down in a spray of white hand lotion. (For those of you who have not seen my suit: note that it is not white). Upon closer examination of the street it seems that there had been a plastic bottle of lotion in the street, with the bottom facing directly at me, over which this car had run. The bottom burst out and the entire contents ended up on the sidewalk; minus of course a very leg-shapped shaddow of clean pavement. Needless to say it was not the ideal event to have happen when on the way to an interview.
Fortunately I had about 45 minutes to kill and a woman who was crossing the street going the other direction gave me her handkerchief with which to clean off. So I have an interesting story and, aside from a brief moment of concern, the only down side is that I need to take my suit to the cleaners when I get back to LA, and I had been planning on doing that soon anyway.
So that was my day interviewing, the interesting parts version.