For Law Firms
Be the first credible touchpoint for Class of 2028 recruiting.
Students should not have to enter 1L spring learning BigLaw recruiting, practice areas, firm differences, and timelines while drowning in classwork. BigLaw Bear helps them learn ahead over the summer, while firms host educational events, verify public information, and use better tools for the compressed recruiting cycle.
Mission
Teach students before 1L spring, then make recruiting cleaner for everyone.
BigLaw Bear gives students a free place to understand firms, practice groups, offices, timelines, and recruiting choices before the 1L spring rush starts.
For firms, the first job is simple: meet students earlier, host educational summer programming, and verify the facts students use when they compare you with peer firms.
To deliver on that mission, we built a firm-visible student profile layer where students can choose to share the information recruiters actually need: school, class year, practice interests, resume, transcript, LSAT, undergraduate GPA, work authorization, and recruiting preferences.
The recruiting tools come after that: events, student messages, applications, interviews, offer letters, outreach, AI-assisted review support, and benchmarks in one system instead of scattered spreadsheets, inbox threads, and last-minute follow-up lists.
Free for students
Students can browse firms, read guides, use tools, and learn recruiting basics without paying.
Free for firms in 2026
Firms can verify their profile, host summer programming, and test the firm portal during the 2026 launch year.
Built for summer access
Use Zooms, office visits, practice-group panels, and club events to reach students before they are flooded with recruiting noise.
Verified firm facts
Keep offices, practice strengths, class sizes, application links, recruiting timing, and public firm data current.
Student-supplied profiles
Students can share the materials and preferences they want firms to see, including resumes, transcripts, grades, scores, and practice interests.
Real interest signals
RSVPs, profile views, saved firms, and stated recruiting preferences help your team see which students are actively tracking your firm.
Firm FAQ
The short answer for recruiting teams
What should our firm do first?
Verify your public firm profile, then pick one summer event that teaches students something useful about your practice groups, offices, or recruiting process.
What information should we verify?
Office hiring, practice strengths, class-year timing, application links, summer class size, interview format, offer timing, student FAQs, and any public firm metrics with gaps.
How do summer events work?
We can help set up virtual panels, office visits, coffee chats, and student-club events. Students RSVP through BigLaw Bear, and your team can see interest before applications open.
How do we see genuine student interest?
Students can save firms, RSVP to events, share profile details, and show practice or office preferences. That gives recruiting teams a cleaner read on who is paying attention before the formal process starts.
Do we have to run applications or interviews here?
No. Firms can start with education, events, profile verification, and student messaging. If your team wants more, the application, interview, offer, outreach, benchmark, and AI-assisted review tools are built to manage the recruiting cycle more cleanly. Recruiters stay in control of decisions.
What is free for firms in 2026?
Profile verification, summer event support, student RSVPs, interest signals, and a guided look at the firm portal are free during the 2026 launch year. Deeper integrations can wait until your team sees the value.
Then give recruiting teams a cleaner way to manage the cycle
Once students understand firms earlier, BigLaw Bear gives your team a practical edge: see genuine interest, message the right students, manage applications and interviews, and track offers without scattering the work across spreadsheets and inboxes.
See who is paying attention
RSVPs, profile views, saved firms, and student-supplied profiles tell you who is actually leaning toward your firm.
Move candidates without chaos
Applications, screeners, callbacks, offers, messages, and notes stay on one board instead of living across separate files.
Use AI as review support
Optional AI tools can organize materials and surface patterns, while recruiters stay responsible for every decision.
Start with students who already care
Events, RSVPs, profile views, saved firms, and recruiting preferences roll into one student view so your team can follow up with better context.
Pre-application talent pool
100 students surfaced from gold-star, applied, and watching signals
8
Gold Medals
27
Gold Stars
33
Applied
32
Watching
Drag any row to reorder your shortlist. Order is yours; the student never sees it.
Daniel Moore
University of Virginia Law School · Class of 2028
This firm is their #1Law school
University of Virginia Law School · T14
Undergrad
USC · Engineering · 3.73
LSAT / GPA
165 · 3.96
Practice interest
Preferred cities
Selected · Daniel Moore
Daniel Moore
University of Virginia Law School · Class of 2028
This firm is their #1Law school
University of Virginia Law School · T14
Undergrad
USC · Engineering · 3.73
LSAT / GPA
165 · 3.96
Practice interest
Preferred cities
Manage applications, interviews, and offers from one board
Applied, screener, callback, offer, signed. Filter by school, practice interest, and genuine-interest signals. Advancing a candidate can queue the right recruiter-reviewed message and keep the record current.
2L Summer Associate · 2027 cycle
Applied
47Maya Patel
Columbia Law
Daniel Kim
NYU Law
Olivia Hartwell
Penn Carey Law
Ravi Nair
Vanderbilt Law
Screener
18Andre Whitfield
Harvard Law
Priya Raj
Yale Law
Marcus Chen
Stanford Law
Callback
6Elena Rossi
Berkeley Law
Joseph Adeyemi
Northwestern Law
Sarah Goldberg
Georgetown Law
Offer
4Henry Tan
Chicago Law
Lila Hassan
Duke Law
James O'Connell
Virginia Law
Verify what students see about your firm
Students are already comparing firms from scattered, stale sources. Your BigLaw Bear profile gives them current office hiring, practice strengths, application links, recruiting events, summer class notes, and the context that makes side-by-side comparisons fair.
Editor (firm portal)
SavedComparison-page bio
30-600 chars. Shows on /firms/compare hero cards.
208 / 600
Featured practice areas
Up to 6, comma-separated. Render as chips on your profile.
What makes us different
One sentence. Pulled to the top of /firms/[slug].
72 / 200
Live preview · /firms/sample-co
Edits on the left update the student-facing profile immediately.
Sample & Co. LLP
New York, NY · Sample data
“We staff lean. Most associates take first chair on a deal by year three.”
Sample & Co. LLP is a 600-attorney New York firm. Chambers Band 1 in Public M&A, Capital Markets, and Banking. Known for a rotation summer system where associates cycle through every group before joining one.
Known for
Compare card
Short bio
Firm page
Differentiator
Filters
Practice chips
Students see this when they compare firms, browse your profile, and decide whether your events are worth attending.
Free firm access in 2026
Start with education, verification, and one summer event
No engineering project required. Verify your firm profile, host a summer Zoom or school-club event, and give students better information before recruiting season starts. Add applications, interviews, offers, and integrations only when your team wants the fuller recruiting workflow.