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Career Center: News You Can Use, for Fall Recruiting

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Hey 2Ls! Looking for more insight on which firms to consider this fall?  Want to know which firms still offer 14-week summer programs and which ones are canceling their summer programs entirely?  Curious about who provides a $15 lunch budget and who subsidizes $75 lunches? Check out the summer associate program snapshots at the ATL Career Center, powered by Lateral Link. It gives you the inside track on summer associate programs at major law firms across the country.  Follow the links below to find out:

  • Which firm has a "professor in residence" to assist summer associates with legal research and writing questions?  Click here.
  • Which firm’s summer program kicks off with a "fantastic" and "truly exceptional" weekend at a seaside resort in California?  Click here.
  • Which firm provides a $65 lunch budget and allows summer associates to attend an unlimited number of lunches each week?  Click here.
  • Which firm’s summer associates report being “treated like associates and expected (for the most part) to work like associates,” and say that they were “busy and challenged” by the “intense work expectations”?  Click here.
  • Which firm takes its promise to give summer associates a "hands-on" experience literally and invited summer associates to visit a client’s wind farm and climb to the top of "a 55-meter turbine"?  Click here.

    • More guessing games, after the jump.

  • Which firm allows summer associates to apply for summer positions in its Asia offices and assists with travel expenses and housing?  Click here.
  • Which firm’s social calendar for the summer included hiking trips, scotch tastings and an impromptu Michael Jackson tribute concert?  Click here.
  • Which firm hired 27 law students from Harvard, more than from any other law school, into its most recent starting class?  Click here.
  • Which firm runs a week-long Summer Mock Trial for summer associates, led by former Assistant U.S. Attorneys and Assistant District Attorneys who are now partners at the firm?  Click here.
  • Which firm went "green" this year and launched a website for law firm recruiting instead of giving out printed promotional material, donating $50,000 in savings to various charities?  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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