The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana has launched a class action lawsuit against the Indiana Board of Law Examiners, alleging that investigating the mental health history of law license…
San Francisco’s Orrick, which laid off 300 employees in March, has informed its 2009 summers associates that any job offers will not start until January 2012. Those offered positions will…
![University of Illinois Law “Jobs-for-Entry” Scheme Revealed [Update]](http://www.jdjournal.com/wp-content/themes/advanced-newspaper/timthumb.php?src=wp-content%2Fuploads%2F2009%2F06%2Funiversityillinoiscollegela.jpg&q=90&w=80&h=66&zc=1 "University of Illinois Law “Jobs-for-Entry” Scheme Revealed [Update]")
The Chicago Tribune has uncovered a “jobs-for-entry” scandal at the University of Illinois College of Law, in which the law school admitted politically-connected applicants, some unqualified, in exchange for guarantees…
Boston-based Ropes & Gray, which in March deferred its 2009 associate class, is deferring its current summer associates to “no earlier than January 2011.” It is encouraging those deferred to…
Blank Rome is cutting starting salaries for incoming associates. The rundown is as follows: New York City: $145,000, down from $160,000 Philadelphia & Princeton: $130,000, from $145,000 Wilmington & Washington…
For months now, Biglaw firms have been offering voluntary, or imposing involuntary, deferral schemes on incoming associates. Now a law school had jumped on the bandwagon. The University of Miami…
A study by the National Association for Law Placement, or NALP, shows a widening disparity in law firm associate salaries, with most associate starting salaries falling into one of two…
Pillsbury has missed its own deadline to inform 22 of its 54 incoming associates that they will be deferred again, to January 2011. The other 32 will begin work in…
Like Dentons before it, Taylor Wessing will only hire half of their trainees. Thirteen of its 24 2009 trainees will be kept on in September. The firm is offering training…
Dentons, which in March laid off 37 lawyers and 39 staff, will only hire on half of their 2009 trainees. The firm says only 17 of its 31 September 2009…
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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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