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 2010 — but the other half has been informed, personally by phone, they will not start until January 2011. The latter group will get an additional [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 31, 2009
New York’s Proskauer Rose, which in March laid off 23 attorneys, is deferring its current Summer associates to Fall 2011. Proskauer has not announced how many Summers will get job offers, and there has so far been no mention of stipends or fellowships. The firm deferred its 2009 incoming associates class to March 2010 with a $20,000 [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Ropes & Gray, which in July deferred its 2009 summer associates to “no earlier than January 2011,” is offering those associates a public interest fellowship worth $60,000. The firm would not confirm rumors that every single one of its current summers was offered a job, but said there would be a “very high offer rate.” In addition [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 17, 2009
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 the firm told its current summer associates that, if offered a job, they can voluntarily defer their start date from January 2011 to January 2012. Those deferred [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 9, 2009
San Francisco’s Orrick, which laid off 300 employees in March, has informed its 2009 summers associates that any job offers will not start until January 2012. Those offered positions will defer for one year, and participate in a public interest fellowship program in 2011. Also the firm, which usually recruits on campuses in late Summer/early Fall, will [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 6, 2009
Boston-based Ropes & Gray, which in March deferred its 2009 associate class, is deferring its current summer associates to “no earlier than January 2011.” It is encouraging those deferred to find a public interest fellowship or a clerkship. There has been no mention of stipends. If you have any additional details about deferrals at Ropes & Gray, please [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 29, 2009
Pillsbury has missed its own deadline to inform 22 of its 54 incoming associates that they will be deferred again, to January 2011. The other 32 will begin work in January 2010. The firm had promised its incoming class that each member would be informed of their fate by last Friday, but this never happened. Pillsbury offered $60,000 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 25, 2009
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 half of those will be further deferred to Fall 2010, and take public interest jobs in the interim. This year’s incoming class is 15% smaller than last [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 12, 2009
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s Committee on Judicial Ethics has signed off on a proposal that would allow deferred law-firm associates to work for the Trial Court as “volunteer interns,” while on the payroll of their firms. The CJE concluded that Trial Court judges could maintain their impartiality by using a double blind system to select [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 8, 2009
Connecticut’s Shipman & Goodwin, which cut 26 jobs in April, is deferring three of its eight incoming associates. The three associates joining its Hartford office will start in Fall 2010. The others will begin on time this Fall. The firm is working on placement opportunities for the deferred associates. Founded in 1919, Shipman & Goodwin has 335 employees, [...]
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