Katten has split its deferred class of incoming associates into three groups. The lucky group will start in February, as re-scheduled. The second group is being pushed back to October of next year, a full 16 months after they graduated from law school, and the third group gets $50k and the door. Katten Muchin [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 7, 2009
LexisNexis has announced a program of free access for new associates whose law firm positions have been deferred. The Associates Serving Public Interests Research program, or ASPIRE, gives graduates complimentary access to federal and state case law, codes, regulations and law reviews. The idea is to give law school grads resources to effectively support their [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 29, 2009
The Loyola University Chicago School of Law is offering two programs for graduates who have been deferred by their law firms or are unable to secure a job offer. First, the School of Law will offer its 2009 graduates a deeply discounted tuition of $9,500.00 for its traditional LL.M. degrees in Child and Family Law, Health [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe is recruiting recent law school graduates for its Global Operations Center in Wheeling, West Virginia. The positions are entry level Career Attorneys in the Emerging Companies Group. In the beginning of March, Orrick laid off 100 associates and 200 staff. The San Francisco-based firm, founded in 1863, has over 1,100 lawyers worldwide in 21 [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 20, 2009
The National Law Journal reports that major firms brought on as many new associates in 2008 as they did in 2007, leaving them with many new hires despite the current industry-wide layoffs. Despite the economic nosedive that began gaining momentum in 2008, the nation’s biggest law firms hired just about the same percentage of graduates from [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 17, 2009
The American Lawyer expects a “a paradigm-shifting, blood-in-the-suites, terror-on-the-campus hiring and retention crisis” in 2009. If nothing changes, this fall the same law firms that recently laid off lawyers will start welcoming large groups of new lawyers, whom they will pay too well and for whom they will have too little work. If the layoffs [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 3, 2009
The Kansas City Star has a story about two recent law school grads who, unable to find a law firm to hire them, decided to take the risky step of hanging out their own shingle. Sarah Buckley and Alexandra Hutchings took a leap that few new lawyers would consider. After graduating from the University of Missouri-Kansas City [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Legal aid programs are hurting from a reduction in funding from Interest on Lawyer Trust Account Programs and state budget cuts, forcing layoffs and cuts in services. Legal aid groups across the country are expected to cut their staffs by 20% or more. This comes in lieu of the fact that demand for legal services is [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 23, 2009
The law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom has announced the selection of 28 Skadden Fellows for the class of 2009, bringing to 564 the number of law school graduates and judicial clerks the firm has funded to work full-time for legal and advocacy organizations. Called “a legal Peace Corps” by the Los Angeles [...]
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