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NALP Reports Better Employment Outlook for Recent Law Graduates

NALP Reports Better Employment Outlook for Recent Law Graduates

There is good news for recent law graduates.  According to the National Association for Law Placement (NALP), the rate of summer associates that received offers increased to 87% in 2010,…

Skadden Arps To Cut Summer Program Invitations In Half

Skadden Arps To Cut Summer Program Invitations In Half

Prominent New York based firm Skadden Arps sent out offers to potential candidates for their 2010 summer program. The firm, which boasts over 2,000 lawyers, announced in August that there…

Skadden Slashing 2010 Summer Class Size by Half

Skadden Slashing 2010 Summer Class Size by Half

Skadden will hold its Summer associates program in 2010, but with less than half as many associates than in 2009. The firm had 225 summers this year, but will only…

Dorsey & Whitney Cancels Most 2010 Summer Programs

Dorsey & Whitney Cancels Most 2010 Summer Programs

Dorsey & Whitney, which in June laid off 55 staff members and cut associate salaries, has canceled its 2010 Summer Associate programs, except at the firm’s Minneapolis, Minnesota headquarters. The…

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…

Harvard Law Reduces Summer Job Requirement

Harvard Law Reduces Summer Job Requirement

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…

New York Law Firms Slash Summer Classes

New York Law Firms Slash Summer Classes

The New York Law Journal has published its annual survey of summer class sizes at New York Biglaw firms. Latham & Watkins had the largest cut in class size, of…

Morris Manning Cancels 2010 Summer Associate Program

First, Manhattan’s Skadden announced that 2009 Summer Associate Program 3Ls, if they are offered jobs, will not begin until 2011. Now Atlanta’s Morris Manning has said they will not have…

Skadden Warns Summers: You Will Be Deferred to 2011

Skadden Warns Summers: You Will Be Deferred to 2011

The 2009 Summer Associate Program at Skadden has begun. And the 3Ls have been warned that, if they get an offer to join Skadden, they won’t be starting in 2010…

Barlow Lyde & Gilbert Asks Trainees to Defer, Offers Whopping £2,500

Barlow Lyde & Gilbert Asks Trainees to Defer, Offers Whopping £2,500

London’s Barlow Lyde & Gilbert, which recently opened a fifth office in Manchester, has asked half of its September 2009 incoming trainee class to delay joining the firm for six…

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