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. We delete your profile within 48 hours and your sub-processors are notified within 30 days per our privacy policy. If a firm has already extended you an offer letter, you can keep that record for your own files; we keep the offer letter visible to that firm but redact your other data.

From /firms open the firm’s page and click Apply. Your profile data fills the application; you only need to write the firm-specific fields (cover letter, why-firm, custom questions). Each firm has its own deadline + custom requirements.

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. Check your email for a signing link.
• Withdrawn, you withdrew the application, or it was auto-withdrawn because you accepted an offer elsewhere.
• Declined, the firm declined to move forward. They may include a brief reason; if not, write the firm directly to ask for feedback.

We auto-withdraw your other open applications (the firms get a polite "candidate accepted elsewhere" note) so you don’t have to manually decline each one. You stay in control: if you want to keep an application open for any reason, say, you’re weighing two offers, turn off the auto-withdraw from /settings before signing.

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.

Up to five per recruiting cycle. The cap keeps the signal meaningful, if everyone could star every firm, the signal would be useless. We re-stock your stars at the start of each cycle.

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.

Two places: (1) your email inbox, the firm’s "Offer of Employment" email contains a one-time signing link, and (2) your dashboard, which lists every active offer with a link.

From /dashboard, tap the offer card and click "Resend signing link." If the offer has expired, contact the firm directly, they can extend the deadline and we’ll mint a fresh link.

Right after you sign, the confirmation page has a prominent "Download your signed copy" button, we strongly recommend saving the PDF to your records. You can also re-download from /dashboard anytime; the link is permanent for accepted offers.

On the offer page, tap "Decline" and write a brief note (a sentence or two is fine). The firm receives your note plus an automatic withdrawal-of-other-firms email goes nowhere, decline doesn’t affect your other applications. Big Law is a small world; a graceful decline matters.

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.

Most firms accept rescheduling up to 24 hours before the interview. From your dashboard or the booking confirmation email, click "Reschedule", you’ll see the firm’s remaining slots. If no slots work, write the firm’s recruiting team directly.

In two places: your booking confirmation email, and the calendar event your interviewer’s system added when you booked. We mint a Zoom or Google Meet URL automatically depending on the firm’s preferred provider, so you don’t have to wait for the firm to send one separately.

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 , interview confirmations, offer letters, 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 envelopes, 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.

Big Law Bear uses AI to help recruiters sort applications faster and to assist interviewers during live conversations. AI does not hire or reject anyone on its own.Every signal goes through a human at the firm before it affects your candidacy. Read the full methodology at /legal/ai-methodology.

Yes. From /settings you can disable AI prescreen on your applications without penalty, your application still goes through normal human review. You can also decline AI consent on interviews (Illinois candidates and any candidate who chooses).