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Hard Times at Seyfarth Shaw

Friday, November 20, 2009

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Hard Times at Seyfarth Shaw

Seyfarth Shaw has told half of its deferred associates that they will not be starting in January as planned. Instead, they are being redeferred to October 2010, and will receive a stipend of $2000 dollars per month starting in January. If that wasn’t enough bad news, Seyfarth is also cutting the salaries of [...]

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Incoming Associate Class Split, Half Will do Pro Bono Work at Reduced Salary

Thursday, October 29, 2009

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Incoming Associate Class Split, Half Will do Pro Bono Work at Reduced Salary

Incoming associates at Kaye Scholer will all start in January, right on (deferred) schedule. The only thing is, half of them will be paid $100,000 less per year than their colleagues. The class was divided based partially on practice group preference and to a certain extent, arbitrarily. Instead of extending the deferrals for half the [...]

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More Deferrals at Foley & Lardner

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

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More Deferrals at Foley & Lardner

Earlier this month tipsters alerted us to layoffs at Foley & Lardner, which the firm later confirmed. Like many firms, Foley & Lardner deferred its incoming associate class, but now it appears that some of those associates are being deferred again. Incoming IP associates have been pushed back to September of next year, [...]

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