“In mine over 20 years ago, people got plenty of job offers with Biglaw each year, even after the first semester of 1L year (which I did) and even as 3Ls (which I did)”
Fixed that for you. Have a fun fact about 3L hiring: in 2014, there were [url=<a href=“http://www.nalp.org/uploads/PerspectivesonFall2014.pdf%5D315%5B/url”>http://www.nalp.org/uploads/PerspectivesonFall2014.pdf]315[/url] offers made to 3Ls (with a 70% acceptance rate, showing just how many of those were people trying to trade up). By comparison, there were approximately 12,600 offers made to 2Ls.
That seems a fairly snarky but not terribly inaccurate statement of my position.