Comments on: ATL March Madness for Law Firms: Williams & Connolly is Crowned Biglaw’s Safest Firm

By: guest

guest — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 03:23:47 +0000

21,

Irell rescinded 3L offers (for those who did not summer with them the previous summer). Safe?

By: guest

guest — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:09:12 +0000

This is why willconn won. This amlaw article is about Munger, but everything in it fully applies to willconn (except for the part about 2009 being tough)... http://amlawdaily.typepad.com/amlawdaily/2009/03/munger-revenue-and-profits-flat.html

By: guest

guest — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:46:57 +0000

54 — well, according to nalp, v&e has over 140 summers this year, for a 700-lawyer firm. that doesn’t sound too safe to me. those numbers might work when there’s voluntary attrition, but if not, something has to give — eg, no-offers to summers, stealth layoffs, or a combination.

By: mlewis78

mlewis78 — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:51:37 +0000

Williams and WHO? The whole concept of safe firm is a joke. There is no job security anywhere.

By: guest

guest — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:27:50 +0000

52, I have no idea as to the health of V&E but scaled back summer programs are no indicator whatsoever. Layoffs, deferred start dates, salary cuts, etc… all reveal a suffering firm. A 10 as opposed to 12 week summer program means absolutely nothing. In this economy, it’s silly to spend on a longer summer program no matter how well your firm is doing.

By: guest

guest — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:57:20 +0000

The stealth layoffs at W&C disagree

By: guest

guest — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:53:57 +0000

40 — then why did v&e scale back their summer program?

v&e was/is transaction heavy compared to bb.

By: guest

guest — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:41:27 +0000

50 just made me spit out my chicken wrap. Game over. Everyone else, thanks for playing. And 50, when I finish laughing, I hope we can hang out in hell.

By: guest

guest — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:31:36 +0000

@45 – From now on I will only make references about topics from the future; and no I am not the AIDS joke guy, but I wish I was. AIDS never gets old.

Ryan White

By: guest

guest — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:26:45 +0000

http://www.thomsonreuters.com/content/PDF/financial/league_tables/ma/2009/1Q09_legal_advisory.pdf

If this is any indication… the M&A powerhouses are BACK. Cravath in the first 3 months of this year completed more deals than in ALL of 2008….

Wachtell in the first 3 months of this year completed almost half of what it did in 2008 in the first 3 months of 2009. Bow down.

No M&A isn’t back— but the M&A work that is around is going directly to the top places. Enough said