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Corrs Defers Recruits, Freezes Salaries

Corrs Defers Recruits, Freezes Salaries

Corrs has delayed the start dates for its 2009 recruits, paying stipends of US$1,740 each. In March, the firm implemented a firm-wide salary freeze. There may be individual exceptions, and…

DLA Piper to Keep Only 35% of Incoming Trainees

DLA Piper to Keep Only 35% of Incoming Trainees

The UK offices of DLA Piper have cut incoming trainees from their intakes of newly-qualified lawyers. The firm will only be keeping four of its 12 trainees in Birmingham; 14…

Governator May Eliminate State Funding for Hastings Law School

Governator May Eliminate State Funding for Hastings Law School

California’s Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed cutting almost all state funding for the Hastings College of the Law, California’s oldest law school. The proposed $10.3 million cut would eliminate…

New York Law Firms Slash Summer Classes

New York Law Firms Slash Summer Classes

The New York Law Journal has published its annual survey of summer class sizes at New York Biglaw firms. Latham & Watkins had the largest cut in class size, of…

Law Firm LG to Send Home 12 Trainees

Law Firm LG to Send Home 12 Trainees

London-based law firm LG, formerly Lawrence Graham LLP, will hire just nine members of its incoming trainee class of 21. One of the departures was voluntary. In April, the firm…

Freshfields Will Not Hire 30% of Incoming Trainees

Freshfields Will Not Hire 30% of Incoming Trainees

London’s Freshfields will only hire 70% of its September 2009 trainees. Fourteen of the class of 48 trainees set to start this Fall in London will not be retained. Those…

McDermott Will & Emery Reduces Summer Associate Pay

McDermott Will & Emery Reduces Summer Associate Pay

McDermott Will & Emery has cut pay for its summer associates to $135,000, down from the Biglaw standard $160,000. McDermott says the cuts were in response to client concerns. The…

AgnewBrusavich Awards Scholarships

AgnewBrusavich Awards Scholarships

Torrance, California-based personal injury law firm AgnewBrusavich has awarded 27 scholarships to seniors from 16 local high schools. The firm has awarded 355 such scholarships in the last 15 years,…

Swine Flu Outbreak at Mayer Brown Chicago

Here’s a story that no legal blog is going to pass up: Mayer Brown has confirmed a possible swine flu outbreak at its Chicago office. From the memo, penned by…

Philadelphia Bar Announces Diversity Scholarships

Philadelphia Bar Announces Diversity Scholarships

The Young Lawyers Division of the Philadelphia Bar Association will award its Diversity Scholarships to five local law students at its annual Diversity Happy Hour on June 16th. Those receiving…