Jones Day has been the most vociferous opponent of the NALP recruitment plan, as we originally reported here, but several other firms have come out against it. Weil Gotshal and Lowenstein Sandler have spoken out against it, saying that it would create a five month gap between on campus interviews and the extension of offers – [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 29, 2009
Do you wake up every morning hoping that today will be the day that your firm will improve attorney development, and strengthen its ability to recruit, retain and develop the best talent at all professional levels by cutting your salary? If so, you may want to consider moving to Foley Hoag. In a firm wide [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Belmont University in Nashville, TN, is opening a new law school with classes set to begin in fall of 2011. Belmont will be the first new law school in central Tennessee to open in over 100 years. The first class will be a little under 300 students, and tuition is expected to be [...]
Continue reading...Friday, September 11, 2009
Law students are worried about an increasingly competitive job market and law schools are looking for ways to better prepare them for life after school. Several schools have begun adapting their curriculum but the boldest change is coming from Washington and Lee University. Washington and Lee has created a third year program designed to give [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 13, 2009
The University of Miami School of Law is offering incentives to its incoming Fall 2009 students, to defer starting at the school until Fall 2010. The school says a higher than usual number of accepted offers has created a “larger than optimal” first year class. Those who accept the deferral will get a $5,000 scholarship upon completing [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 7, 2009
According to a JDJournal tipster, there have been stealth layoffs at the USC Gould School of Law. With all of the recent focus on the University of California Law School furloughs, it’s got to be asked why USC Law laid off staff members this past week, and none of this is being made public by USC [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 27, 2009
The University of California has announced a furloughs scheme beginning in September, affecting faculty at law schools, amongst others. The system is effectively slashing salaries by 4% to 10%. The plan requires faculty and staff to take up to 26 unpaid furlough days during the 2009-10 school year. One hundred and eight thousand employees of the [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 20, 2009
Ballard Spahr has followed the example made by Morgan Lewis last week, and canceled its 2010 Summer Program. The firm made no formal announcement, but notified law schools of the decision. Thompson Hine and Squire Sanders made similar announcements today. Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll employs more than 550 lawyers in twelve offices located throughout the mid-Atlantic corridor [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 1, 2009
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 School of Law is asking incoming 1L students invited to start in the Fall to defer their entry into the law school until Fall 2010. Students who [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Most students receiving financial aid from Harvard Law School are required to work for 10 weeks over the summer, the traditional length of a major law firm summer program. But this year, many students have seen their summer jobs reduced, or cut entirely, by law firms. Initially, the school said these students would still need to [...]
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