Career Center Survey: How are the First-Year Associates Faring?

If you’re in Biglaw, chances are that not all of the first-year associates currently working at your firm are of the fresh-out-of-law-school-and-still-tan-from-post-bar-trip variety. With many firms just now welcoming back some Class of 2009 associates after a yearlong deferral, Class of 2010 associates have to wait their turn to start work in 2011 or 2012. But now that the great recession is over, surely business has picked up enough so that there is plenty of doc review and due diligence to go around for first-year associates, right? Or is work still so slow that the more senior associates have to hoard all the grunt work?

In this week’s survey, we want to know whether the first-year associates at your firm are being welcomed with open arms, or viewed as the competition…

Please take our short survey below (survey responses are kept completely confidential, of course), and we’ll bring you the results next week.

[Survey is now closed.]

For more information on deferred associates at the top law firms, please visit the ATL Career Center, hosted by Lateral Link.

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If you have information about your firm that you want to share with other career center users, please email us at careercenter@abovethelaw.com.

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