Student help

Try the password reset link on /login. The reset email arrives within ~30 seconds; if it doesn’t, check spam, then make sure you’re using the exact email you signed up with (some students sign up with their school email and try to log in later with a personal one).

Still stuck? Email hello@biglawbear.com and include the email you signed up with.

When you sign up with a .edu address from an ABA-accredited law school we recognize, we mark your account verified automatically.

If you used a personal email, go to /profile/edit and add your law-school email, we’ll send a verification link.

Yes. From /profile/edit tap "Change email." We’ll send a confirmation link to the new address. Both addresses receive a notice when the change completes.

Go to /settings → Privacy → Delete my account. When you confirm, we delete your profile and uploaded files right away. Anything left, such as records the law requires us to keep, follows our privacy policy.

From /firms open the firm’s page and use its apply link. You apply on each firm’s own site. Then click Mark applied in the Firm Directory to track it here.

Open /firms, find the application, tap the menu, and choose Withdraw. You can leave a brief reason or skip it. The firm receives a polite note that you withdrew; they don’t see the reason unless you write one.

• Submitted, the firm has received your materials.
• Screening, the firm has invited you to a first-round interview.
• Callback, the firm has invited you to meet attorneys at the office.
• Offer, they’ve made you an offer. The firm will contact you with the details.
• Withdrawn, you withdrew the application.
• Declined, the firm declined to move forward. They may include a brief reason; if not, write the firm directly to ask for feedback.

Handle offer responses directly with the firm. Offer review and signing pages are not available in the BigLaw Bear student launch. You can update your private application tracker to record an outcome; doing so does not send a response or withdraw an application with a firm.

A Gold Star tells the firm "I’m genuinely interested", it’s a way to surface signal above the noise of generic applications. Your starred firms see your interest on their candidate dashboard.

Everyone starts with three, and you can earn more by inviting classmates who join and verify. The cap keeps the signal meaningful: if everyone could star every firm, the signal would be useless. Swaps are limited, so pick with care.

Yes, from your dashboard or the firm’s page. The firm sees the change immediately. Removing and re-adding stars costs you both, best to be deliberate.

When the firm invites you to interview, you get an email with a "Book a slot" link. The link shows you the firm’s available times; pick one and you get an instant confirmation, plus an .ics calendar invite.

If the firm allows it for that round, open your booking and request a new time with a short reason. The firm’s recruiting team gets your request and decides. Your current slot stays booked until they change it. You can also write the recruiting team directly.

In your booking confirmation email and the calendar file attached to it. It is the Zoom, Teams or Meet link the firm added to your slot.

From /settings → Per-firm email preferences, you can turn off MARKETING email from any firm you’ve interacted with (Gold Star, applied, or received outreach). Transactional emails, such as interview confirmations and scheduling links, always go through.

You can also unsubscribe from the BigLaw Bear weekly digest from the same page.

• Marketing = cold outreach, recruiting campaigns, weekly digests, alerts. You can turn these off per-firm or globally.
• Transactional = interview confirmations, offer updates, status changes on an active application. These always go through; they’re the recruiting process working.

Yes, but doing so will cut off legitimate transactional email about your applications too, that's why we keep it behind a deliberate "global unsubscribe" rather than per-email links. From /settings scroll to the bottom and click "Unsubscribe from all email." You can re-subscribe at any time.