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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. […] -
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Career Center Survey: Who's the best partner to work for?
We hear lots of stories about screamers — the abusive partners that all associates dread getting assignments from. But what about those partners that associates seek out — the ones who are good mentors, who give younger lawyers pointers about how to become better lawyers? This week our ATL / Lateral Link survey asks you […] - Sponsored
Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
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A Small Firm Salary Survey: The Results (Part 2)
A recent study by economists at UC Berkeley gives employers a nice argument for keeping salaries a secret. Well, luckily for you, I’m not your employer. Therefore I have no qualms about sharing with you Part 2 of the results from our small-firm salary survey. In your emails following Part 1, many of you asked […]
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Associate Salaries, Bonuses, Boutique Law Firms, Job Survey, Money, Small Law Firms
A Small Firm Salary Survey: The Results (Part 1)
Over 650 of you responded to last week’s salary survey. In poring over the results, I learned several lessons: (1) Don’t make salary questions fill-in-the-blank. It creates a host of problems, including the inadvertent omitting/adding of zeroes, and makes data compilation and analysis unnecessarily difficult. (2) Do include open-ended “anything else” questions; people write all […] -
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Career Center: Associate Morale Survey Results – Part 2
In part 1 of the results of the Associate Morale Survey, brought to you by Lateral Link, we revealed that 74% of respondents felt that associate morale was either the same or worse than last year. Though not entirely surprising, this result is troubling, given that low employee morale is not helpful to the economic […] -
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Show Me the Money: A Small Firm Salary Survey
Biglaw salaries are no secret. You can find numbers all over the internet, including places like oh, I don’t know, Above the Law (not just the home page, but also the Career Center). But what about information for everyone else? You already know what I made during my time at a small firm, but that […] -
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Career Center: Associate Morale Survey Results - Part 1
A key issue for the workplace, both during recession and recovery, is employee morale. In last week’s survey, we asked Biglaw associates how current associate morale at their firms compares to morale from one year ago. For those of you who need a quick refresher on what the fall of 2009 was like, envision a […] -
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Career Center Survey: Is Associate Morale on the Mend?
Good news: the recession is officially over– and actually has been since June 2009, according to a group of economists. Are Biglaw associates everywhere breathing a collective sigh of relief? Or does the recovering economy have little effect on associate morale? This week, in our ATL / Lateral Link survey, we ask whether morale among […] - Sponsored
Generative AI In Legal Work — What’s Fact And What’s Fiction?
Zach Warren from the Thomson Reuters Institute discusses the potential and the pitfalls. -
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Career Center: The 2010 Summer Associate Survey Results
We’ve completely updated the Summer Associate Program sections in each of the Firm Snapshots with the 2010 summer associate survey results and the latest news. With on-campus interviewing already underway at most schools, law students won’t want to miss getting the inside scoop on the highlights – and lowlights – of each firm’s summer program. […] -
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Summer Associates: Last Call
Ah, the end of summer. For many law students, this time of year ushers in the arrival of the fall on-campus recruiting season (or what’s left of it), the dreaded wait for a permanent offer of employment following graduation, as well as a new diet regime for those summer associates who took their firm’s “unlimited […] -
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Summer Associates: We Can't Hear You
The good old days of Biglaw summer associate programs have now become the stuff of legend. Long gone are the days of doing doc review at the beach, unlimited lunches on the firm’s tab, swanky social events, and 100% offers for full-time employment. Instead, today’s typical summer associate program has been streamlined down to 8 […] -
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Summer Associates: Let Your Voices Be Heard
We are updating the Career Center and want to know what you think of your summer program. Are the attorneys at your firm screamers or camp counselors? Are you eating at 5-star restaurants, or splitting meals from the Dollar Menu at McDonalds? Are you working on the next mega-merger, or picking up a partner’s dry cleaning? […] -
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Career Center 2.0 (Beta) Is Now Live!
We are pleased to announce the launch of our newly re-developed Career Center, featuring an enhanced design and completely updated firm profiles based on the results of the 2010 ATL / Lateral Link Career Center Associate Satisfaction survey. Are you curious which firms are getting the most buzz? Which firms do people most want to […]
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Generative AI In Legal Work — What’s Fact And What’s Fiction?
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Billable Hours, Job Survey
The Hours Open Thread: How Are Your 2010 Billables?
We’re nearing the mid-way point of 2010. By popular demand, it’s time to check in on how people are doing for billable hours. We mentioned yesterday that in-house counsel are not looking to raise the billables of outside counsel, so we wanted to take the temperature of the community. We did this survey last year […] -
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Career Center: When Do You Get a Raise?
With all the salary freezes, thaws and permanent meltdowns over the past year, it’s hard to keep track of what associates at law firms are actually making these days. And associates are learning that an annual lock-step raise is no longer a sure thing under new compensation systems at many firms. This week our ATL […] -
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Pls Hndle Thx: High Anxiety
Ed. note: Have a question for next week? Send it in to advice@abovethelaw.com. Dear ATL, So I got Lathamed from my job last year. It was tough but I eventually found a job that I like. However, I live in constant fear of being Lathamed again. I guess since it came out of nowhere last […] -
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Career Center: Clerkship Survey Results
Our recent Career Center survey asked about whether the recession has affected clerkship bonuses and law firm hiring of clerks. Of respondents at law firms, a slight majority — 57% — indicated that their firms are not interviewing judicial clerks for Fall 2010 positions. Of respondents who are currently clerking, only 30% indicated that they […] -
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Career Center: Clerkship Bonus Survey
We recently wrote about the subject of clerkship bonuses (which generated some very helpful comments). Now we’re going to gather some additional data on the subject of law clerk hiring and clerkship bonuses. This week, our ATL / Lateral Link survey asks about how clerks are faring in the marketplace. We’ll use the information obtained […] -
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Career Center: January's Ten Most Popular Firms
While associates at some firms are still waiting to learn what their 2009 bonuses will be, associates at other firms are learning more about what the future holds in store for them, as more firms announce new compensation structures for 2010 and beyond. Check out the ATL Career Center, powered by Lateral Link, for the […] -
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Career Center: Survey Says
Our recent Career Center survey asked about whether you think layoffs and salary cuts are a thing of the past or if 2010 will bring more of the same. The majority of respondents — 70% — are optimistic about salaries, saying they do not expect any further salary cuts in 2010. However, respondents were not […]