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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,”…
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.…
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