Last week, Maryland Public Defender Nancy Forster, the state’s chief Public Defender since 2001, was suddenly terminated, with a reason given publicly, by a 2-1 vote of the Board of…
The Law Society of Scotland may cut employees, as it faces losing £1 million in revenue. The professional governing body is cutting the cost of practicing as a solicitor from…
Gregory Page, formerly of Pickrel Schaeffer & Ebeling, is launching his own practice in Springboro, Ohio, and will hire two attorneys and three staff before the end of the year.…
Boston’s Mintz Levin, which cut associate salaries this month, is deferring start dates for members of its incoming 2009 associates class, again. Half the 2009 class will start in April…
Proskauer Rose, which in July deferred its current Summer associates to Fall 2011, is also deferring its deferred 2009 incoming associate class in New York. The associates, who had already…
Good morning! Here are the top stories: Loeb & Loeb has “suspended” its Summer associates program at its New York office… Last week in law firm layoffs: an undisclosed number…
Recent laterals and layoffs in the legal sector: Stuart Levy joins Sughrue Mion as of counsel in the firm’s electrical/mechanical practice group in Washington, DC. Levy spent 37 years at…
Seyfarth Shaw has added lawyers to its intellectual property and corporate & finance groups in Atlanta, Georgia. Jack D. Todd joins as a partner from Morris, Manning & Martin. His…
Boca Raton, Florida’s Sachs Sax Caplan has added two attorneys to its community association practice group. Samuel H. Golden joins as senior counsel from New York’s Godsberg, Zankel & Golden.…
Skadden will hold its Summer associates program in 2010, but with less than half as many associates than in 2009. The firm had 225 summers this year, but will only…
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Law firms of all sizes are being much more selective about who makes equity partner. Gone are the days where doing good work and putting in your time is enough to get you to a profit sharing level. Today, equity partners almost always have to prove that they can contribute their share to the firm. So what does this mean for associates and how can a two-tiered partnership track be beneficial? With a two-tiered partnership structure, associates get more time to prove themselves and also more time to determine whether partnership is the right goal for them. Two-tier partnerships (non-equity and equity) exist so the firm can train and develop associates into equity partners. The non-equity track to partner at most firms is on average, 6 years long. [...]
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