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Career Center: More Summer Program Highlights

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Was the 2009 summer just an aberration?  Or are long hours, canceled retreats, and take-out lunch budgets the future of Big Law summer associate programs?  Find out which firms rolled out the red carpet for summer associates and which firms couldn’t say goodbye to their summers soon enough, over at the ATL Career Center , powered by Lateral Link. Check out the summer associate program snapshots to discover:

  • Which firm’s summers report that “probably 80% of the summer class has pulled at least [one] all-nighter”?  Click here.
  • Which firm held a “skip day,” where summer associates spent the day playing (firm-sanctioned) hooky at the beach?  Click here.
  • Which firm offers a offers a Judicial Clerkship Mentoring Program to summer associates considering clerkships?  Click here.
  • Which firm’s summer associates work with indigent clients through the Legal Aid Society’s Community Law Offices program in East Harlem?  Click here.
    More items, after the jump.

  • Which firm "beefed up" its training program "due to a lack of steady workflow" and held summer associate training sessions several times a week?  Click here.
  • Which firm continues to host a firm-wide summer hiking retreat at Yosemite? Click here.
  • Which firm allows summer associates to attend unlimited attorney lunches, but caps the budget at $15 per person? Click here.
  • Which firm offers as a "highlight" of the summer "awesome" litigation and transactional training institutes?  Click here.
  • Which firm expects summer associates to to regularly check their firm-issued BlackBerrys and to work “a lot of late nights and long weekends”?  Click here.
  • Which firm’s summer associates report having a “great deal of independence” to choose the work they want but say they “don’t really know” their mentors?  Click here.
  • Which firm has a reputation for being "intense, both socially and professionally”?  Click here.

Thank you to all ATL Career Center Users and Lateral Link Members who participated in the survey. If you participated in a 2009 summer associate program and want to share your thoughts, email us at careercenter@abovethelaw.com.

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