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…
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…
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…
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…
DLA Piper is making major changes to its associate program, including further deferrals of associates who were deferred back in April. Eighty-five new lawyers were deferred to January, 2010. Now…
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…
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…
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…
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