In 1933 the Federal Government began paying farmers to not grow crops, in the hopes that reducing the supply would stabilize prices and help spur recovery from the Great Depression.…
Last week we reported that Morgan Lewis was not making any offers to its summer associates in the Washington DC office. i After the firm put out a statement to…
For the second time in two weeks, a major law firm has bucked the trend and asked associates to start early. Mayer Brown today asked half of the new class…
It seemed like a match made in heaven – thanks to a struggling economy, Massachusetts was unable to fill all of the judicial clerkships for the year, and there is…
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…
Seyfarth Shaw, which laid off 50 people in May, has announced it will not host a Summer associate program in 2010. The firm stressed that the cancellation is a one-time…
Weil, Gotshal & Manges announced in March that it was deferring its incoming associates’ start dates to January 2010, and is asking new hires to voluntarily wait until 2011. Today…
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…
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