Last month, we brought you Open Thread: Nationwide Start Date Round-up. After a flood of tips in response to that, we brought you an Expanded Nationwide Start Date Round-up. After that post, we got another deluge of tips. So now we bring you the latest and greatest round-up: more firms, more 2010 start dates, more pro bono deferral opportunities, more great taste, less calories…. whoops, wrong post.
Proskauer Rose announced start dates yesterday. Incoming associates have got some time to kill and some money to spend, says a tipster:
Proskauer [is] pushing their new associates back to March 2010. They’re offering a $20K stipend, or the option to get a public interest job, start Jan. 2011 and get a $60K stipend. They’re also still honoring a $10K salary advance they had previously offered.
Most firms, like Proskauer, have offered baby associates deferral stipends when pushing back start dates. However, a few disgruntled 3Ls have written to ATL saying that stipends are not forthcoming at their firms. Here are reports from tipsters:
Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell not offering any stipends [not even salary advances] to deferred Class of 2009 associates. Deferred Associates are still receiving their graduation bonuses ($1500), I guess that’s supposed to carry them through until January 2010.
You guys got to say something about the fact that Shearman, unlike most of the other firms, isn’t paying any kind of a stipend to those it is deferring until January ’10.
King & Spalding, all offices, has been pushed to January 19, 2010. Incoming associates were informed in late March. No stipend, and the salary advance is also not an option anymore.
Goldberg Kohn gave their incoming associates a $7500 bar stipend (which was reduced from the originally promised $8,000); they paid for Bar Exam fees; and they gave them a hand wave goodbye. As for their reported “pushing back start dates”, Goldberg Kohn has told their incoming associates that their start date was INDEFINITELY deferred. They said that March 2010 was a possibility but that the date was arbitrary and they are making no promises at all….They have offered no deferral stipend.
We would like to note that Shearman is paying a $65,000 stipend to those deferred to September 2010.
We wanted to call this post “The Final Round-up,” but that seemed overly optimistic. Check out the newest additions to the nationwide start date watch, after the jump. This time around, we’ve included firms (that we know of) that have not yet announced start dates.
This list is mainly based on reports from tipsters, and so we consider it an “unofficial” round-up. Feel free to send us corrections at tips@abovethelaw.com with the subject “Nationwide Start Date Watch.” We prefer e-mail to receiving tips in the comments.
Here are the dates incoming associates (hope to) start. We’ve only noted deferral stipend amounts, not “normal” stipends or other extras, like bar exam fees.
We are continually updating this list with new information. LAST UPDATE: April 10, 2009 April 13, 2009 April 14, 2009
Akin Gump – January 2010 ($10,000 stipend), or March 2010 ($15,000 stipend); September 14, 2009 for some Houston associates
Alston & Bird – January 19, 2010 ($10,000 stipend)
Arent Fox – November 1, 2009 for some; February 1, 2010 for others ($5,000 stipend)
Ballard Spahr – September 2010 ($45,000 stipend)
Baker Botts – not yet set, but “no earlier than October 1, and no later than November 12” per a January e-mail to Houston associates
Baker Hostetler – October 15, 2009
Baker & McKenzie – January 2010 (no stipend)
Bingham McCutchen – has not yet announced
Bryan Cave – January 19, 2010 ($10k stipend)
Cadwalader – October 5, 2009
Cleary – staggered options: September 14/ October 12/ November 9, 2009 or January 11, 2010
Clifford Chance – 20 incoming associates will start in January 2010 ($10,000 stipend); About 30 others will start in October 2010 (stipend of $3,335-$5,000 per month).
Chadbourne & Parke – January 2010
Cooley Godward Kronish – January 4, 2010. ($25,000 stipend, including bar stipend)
Cravath – October 2009, November 2009 or January 2010
Debevoise – 2009, baby! September 21, October 12, October 26, or November 16
Dechert – October 5, 2009
Dewey & LeBoeuf – January 11, 2010 ($5,000 stipend)
DLA Piper – has not yet announced
Dorsey & Whitney – November 30, 2009
Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge – March 1, 2010
Faegre & Benson – delayed until “at least October, 2009”
Finnegan – November 2, 2009
Foley & Lardner – September 7th, 2009 (Boston office)
Fried Frank – January 28, 2010 ($10,000 stipend); Fall 2010 ($70,000 stipend)
Fulbright & Jaworski – January 11, 2010
Gibson Dunn – November 16 and November 30, 2009
Goldberg Kohn – “Indefinitely deferred,” March 2010 at the earliest
Greenberg Traurig – January 2010
Hogan & Hartson – November 30, 2009
Holland & Knight – January 11, 2010
Holme, Roberts & Owen – October 2010 (Can accept a one time payment of 15K or 30K in installments, contingent on accepting a public interest job)
Hunton & Williams – January 2010
Irell & Manella – As early as the week after the bar exam; November 1, 2009 at the latest
Jenner & Block – November 2009 (Chicago office)
Katten – February 1, 2010 ($15,000 stipend)
King & Spalding – January 19, 2010
Latham – December 2009; October 2010 ($75,000 stipend)
Linklaters – September 2009
Mayer Brown – January 19, 2010
McDermott Will & Emory – December 1, 2009
McGuire Woods – September 2009 (but salaries have been reduced from $160K to $145K)
Milbank Tweed – January 25, 2010 ($10,000 stipend)
Mintz Levin – January 11, 2010 ($15,000 salary advance)
Morgan Lewis – October 2010
Morrison & Foerster – November 2, 2009 will be the earliest start date
Munger, Tolles & Olson – 2009! (Any Monday after the bar exam)
O’Melveny & Myers – December 2009
Nixon Peabody – January 2010
Paul Hastings – October 12, 2009
Paul Weiss – September 14, 2009
Perkins Coie – January 4, 2010 ($7,500 stipend)
Proskauer Rose – March 2010 ($20,000 stipend), or pro bono deferral option with start date of January 2011 ($60,000 stipend)
Quarles & Brady – January 2010
Ropes & Gray – January 2010
Shearman & Sterling – December 2009 at the earliest, or September 2010 with a $65,000 deferral stipend
Sidley Austin – November 2 or November 16, 2009
Skadden – October 2009
Sonnenschein – 20 associates have start dates between September 2009 and January 2010 ($5,000 stipend), but nine have been deferred to January 2011 (a paltry $10,000 stipend!)
Squire Sanders – January 19, 2010 ($10,000 stipend)
Sullivan & Cromwell – October 2009, but incoming associates haven’t heard anything from the firm lately November 2
Troutman Sanders – January 2010
Venable – January 2010
Vinson & Elkins – November 2, 2009 or January 4, 2010
Wachtell – September 14 or October 12, 2009; November 2, 2009 for clerks only
Weil Gotshal – January 2010 ($15,000 deferral stipend); January 2011 for others ($75,000 stipend)
White & Case – November 2009 for 40% of new associates; 2010 for the rest (with a $45,000 stipend, or a $75,000 stipend if they pursue volunteer or community service during the deferral period)
Wiley Rein – January 11, 2010 for some; October 2010 for others with $5K/month stipend
Willkie Farr – September, October, or November, 2009
WilmerHale – January 20 or March 17, 2010 ($10k stipend for Jan,; $15k stipend for March); also offering $75,000 stipend with fall 2010 deferral option
Wilson Sonsini – January, 2010 ($10,000 stipend)
Winstead – February, 2010
Winston and Strawn – January 19, 2010 ($15k stipend + health insurance)
Earlier: Open Thread: Nationwide Start Date Round-up
Expanded Nationwide Start Date Round-up
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