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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andrei Radu" data-source="post: 218147" data-attributes="member: 36777">While I have not personally been in this situation, I have definitely heard of people misspelling the name of their firm once or twice and still getting through. While it's difficult to say how the firm will react in your situation, given that the HSF-Kramer merger was only completed last year, there are reasons to think you may not be immediately disqualified if the rest of your application is strong. Firstly, the phenomenon of law firms having huge name-changing mergers is a very new one, and recruiters will be aware that students (and the broader market) may well need some time to adapt and to fully digest it. Essentially, in the case of firms like HSFK their historical branding as HSF may simply be too sticky at the moment for the firm to expect everyone to always refer to them as 'HSFK or HSK Kramer' - over the past few months, I have definitely come across some articles in the legal press that still referred to the firm as HSF. Moreover, in discussions about the firm, most lawyers I have come across still refer to the firm simply as HSF. Thus, they may not take a huge issue with you doing it as well.Secondly, firms like HSFK will be very used to abbreviations when it comes to their name. Since there is no short firm abbreviation that the market has fully settled on yet for the firm (notice how I used both "HSFK" and "HSF Kramer"), the firm may just assume you are using your own idea of what that abbreviation will be - particularly if you have also referred to the name of the firm in long form in the initial parts of your answers.</blockquote>

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