Law Firms, Interviews, Blogging

I've finally narrowed down the 120 D.C. law firms coming to UVA for on-grounds interviews to a respectable 29. Here's the list; I'd be grateful to hear any insights you all might have on any particular firm:

Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld
Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn
Arnold & Porter
Baker Botts
Boies, Schiller & Flexner
Bracewell & Patterson
Covington & Burling
Crowell & Moring
Dickstein, Shapiro, Morin & Oshinsky
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson
Fulbright & Jaworski
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Hale & Dorr
Hogan & Hartson
Jones Day
Latham & Watkins
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
O'Melveny & Myers
Piper Rudnick
Shaw Pittman
Shea & Gardner
Sidley Austin Brown & Wood
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Steptoe & Johnson
White & Case
Wiley, Rein & Fielding
Williams & Connolly
Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering
Winston & Strawn

In narrowing down the list I looked primarily at the size of each firm's white collar crime and legislative practice areas. I think there are ~20 firms on the list I'd be really excited to work for, and the rest we'll call "backups".

I'll try to keep everyone relatively updated about the job search, but I won't make particular comments on the firms I interview with unless something really egregious occurs. I also probably won't be announcing what firm I'm working for, to maintain a certain amount of privacy and anonymity, though I may ask for advice if I need help narrowing it down (assuming I get more than one offer).

The other thing I should mention is that it's unclear how much blogging I'll have time for during this next semester. I was able to do a lot of blogging during the day last semester, and I think that ought to remain true. Nonetheless, with an additional class, interviews, two papers to write, and law review cite checks, I will be a bit busier. So we'll make a go of it. I have the fullest confidence that it will be a wonderful semester.