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Proskauer Rose Defers Its Deferred 2009 Associates

Proskauer Rose Defers Its Deferred 2009 Associates

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…

Quinn Emanuel Defers Incoming Associates at Last Minute

Quinn Emanuel Defers Incoming Associates at Last Minute

At its San Francisco and Silicon Valley locations, law firm Quinn Emanuel is deferring half its incoming first year class to until January 2010. No deferral stipend or any other…

Howrey Adopts Apprenticeship Model for First Years

Howrey Adopts Apprenticeship Model for First Years

Howrey, which laid off 25 staff in April, is adopting an “apprenticeship” program for its incoming associates, similar to that proposed by Drinker Biddle in May. Under Howrey’s Tier 1…

Cravath Defers 2010 Associate Class to 2011; Offers Sweet Deferal Option to 2009ers

Cravath Defers 2010 Associate Class to 2011; Offers Sweet Deferal Option to 2009ers

Cravath, which in March deferred its 150-member incoming associate class to October or November 2009 or January 2010, has some more deferring to do. First: the 2009 class is being…

Fish & Richardson Will NOT Cut Associate Pay

Fish & Richardson Will NOT Cut Associate Pay

Contrary to early online reports, global intellectual property firm Fish & Richardson has not announced pay cuts. In fact, at a firmwide video conference earlier today, president Peter Devlin said…

Shearman & Sterling Announces Start Dates

Shearman & Sterling Announces Start Dates

In April, New York’s Shearman & Sterling deferred its 2009 associate class. Incoming associates were offered a stipend to defer to 2010. Now the firm has finally announced internally the…

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…

Allen & Overy to Reduce Incoming Associate Class Sizes

Allen & Overy to Reduce Incoming Associate Class Sizes

In March, London’s Allen & Overy announced it would retain only 70% of its trainees for September 2009 and March 2010. Now the firm has added it will take on…

Fish & Richardson to Rescind Incoming Associate Job Offers

Fish & Richardson to Rescind Incoming Associate Job Offers

Global intellectual property firm Fish & Richardson, which earlier this month laid off 35 lawyers and 85 staff, has rescinded job offers to one-third of its 2009 incoming associate class.…

Reed Smith Cuts Associate Salaries by 10%

Reed Smith is decimating associate salaries, cutting pay 10% across the organization. From the memo: …Reed Smith has adopted many changes to our business in response to global economic conditions……

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