The weather has turned cold, the leaves are falling from the trees in bright shades of orange and red, pumpkins are in season so that must mean it’s time to get around to making offers to your summer class, or at least, some of your offers, right? Well that’s what McGuireWoodsis doing this week. Long [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 9, 2009
In February we told you about staff layoffs at Nixon Peabody, and in April we reported on salary cuts. Those salary cuts were billed as a way to save associate jobs in a struggling economy. Now it appears that those cuts were not enough and that Nixon Peabody has been quietly laying off [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 9, 2009
Earlier this week we told you that Fenwick & West paid several of its incoming associates to find work elsewhere. Today we have the numbers for this year’s crop of summer associates and like many other firms, the numbers aren’t pretty. The firm made offers to 17 of its 36 summer associates. [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 5, 2009
We don’t know yet how much, but DLA Piper has informed its associates that there will be bonuses this year. The total bonus will be between 5 and 50 thousand, to be determined by DLA Piper in January. This, combined with a healthy 86% offer rate for this years summer associates, indicates some [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 5, 2009
Unless you live in a cave, by now you’ve probably heard that the latest numbers from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics show that we lost another 263,000 jobs in September, nationwide. 2,000 of those jobs came from the legal sector, when the numbers are seasonally adjusted. Without seasonal adjustments the legal sector [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 2, 2009
Wildman rescinded the offers it had made to 10 of its 14 incoming associates yesterday. Unlike other firms that we’ve reported on, Wildman Harrold is not offering a stipend to these suddenly unemployed attorneys. Harrold Wildman Harrold Allen & Dixon was founded in 1967 by Max Wildman, Bernard Harrold, Thomas D. Allen, and Stewart S. [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 2, 2009
Good morning one and all. Here’s a quick look back at yesterday’s news… Schulte Roth has sent out offers to its summer associates… McDermott Will & Emery picks up two well known faces… The American Lawyer put out this years Global 100… and Carlton Fields picks up four new lawyers…
Continue reading...Thursday, October 1, 2009
Schulte Roth ran an abbreviated eight week summer program this year, and back at the end of July announced they were not making any offers yet, but would get around to it eventually. Eventually arrived yesterday. Early reports indicate that approximately two-thirds of this years group received offers, but the firm has not [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Deferrals, layoffs, low offer rates for summer associates… what’s next? Apparently things have gotten so bad that even the federal government doesn’t want any more lawyers. The FTC announced today that it was closing its application process for current positions early – they already have more applicants than they can handle.
Continue reading...Thursday, September 24, 2009
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 would be massive cuts to their summer hiring. They hired 225 students for this summer’s program and they plan to hire less than half of [...]
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