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Winston & Strawn Pushes Back Start Dates for Deferred Associates

Winston & Strawn's class of 2009 associates were deferred back in April, and were scheduled to begin mid January of…

Earlier this month tipsters alerted us to layoffs at Foley & Lardner, which the firm later confirmed. Like many firms,…

Boston’s Mintz Levin, which cut associate salaries this month, is deferring start dates for members of its incoming 2009 associates…

New York’s Proskauer Rose, which in March laid off 23 attorneys, is deferring its current Summer associates to Fall 2011.…

For months now, Biglaw firms have been offering voluntary, or imposing involuntary, deferral schemes on incoming associates. Now a law…

Blawgs are reporting that Cravath has been holding stealth layoffs of associates since December 2008, letting 25 lawyers go for…

Cravath, which in March deferred its 150-member incoming associate class to October or November 2009 or January 2010, has some…

In April, New York’s Shearman & Sterling deferred its 2009 associate class. Incoming associates were offered a stipend to defer…

Wiggin and Dana, which in March laid off 14 attorneys and 14 staff, has deferred its incoming associates to February…

Global intellectual property firm Fish & Richardson, which earlier this month laid off 35 lawyers and 85 staff, has rescinded…

London's Barlow Lyde & Gilbert, which recently opened a fifth office in Manchester, has asked half of its September 2009…

Washington, DC-based Hogan & Hartson has joined the ranks of law firms offering a $75,000 stipend to extend the deferrals…