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Mintz Levin Defers Start Dates — Again

Mintz Levin Defers Start Dates — Again

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 to Defer Summer Associates to 2012

Weil Gotshal to Defer Summer Associates to 2012

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…

Study: Dublin Solicitors Suffering Wage Cuts, Layoffs

Study: Dublin Solicitors Suffering Wage Cuts, Layoffs

A survey by the Dublin Solicitors Bar Association reports that 40% of new and low-level solicitors in the city have taken pay cuts averaging 15%; and 40% of incoming new…

Blank Rome Cuts Starting Associate Salaries

Blank Rome Cuts Starting Associate Salaries

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…

University of Miami Law to Defer Incoming Students

University of Miami Law to Defer Incoming Students

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…

Taylor Wessing to Cut Half of Trainees

Taylor Wessing to Cut Half of Trainees

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 Defers its Deferred Associates

DLA Piper Defers its Deferred Associates

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 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…

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…

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…

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