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Admin, NALP
Follow ATL's Twitter Coverage of NALP Conference in Puerto Rico
While two of your ATL editors are stuck in unseasonably cold New York, Elie Mystal landed in Puerto Rico today to attend NALP’s Annual Education Conference. Judging from NALP’s website, it sounds like there was some controversy over the exotic location. They have a whole section devoted to “Why Puerto Rico?” (“It’s home to three […] -
Job Searches, NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP), Summer Associates
Summer Offer Rates: Vault Top 25 Are Hot
On Friday, we told you that NALP released its updated forms on firm offer rates. There is a wealth of information in the NALP data, and an Above the Law reader teased out the summer offer rate information: I’m sure you’ve noticed, some firms only give NALP multi-office reports, some give multi-office reports in conjunction […] - Sponsored
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Biglaw, Cold Offers, Job Searches, NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP), No Offers, Summer Associates
Updated NALP Forms: What Were the Real Offer Rates?
It’s a wonderful time of year. No more innuendo: NALP forms have been updated, and firms have had to come clean with their statistics on summer hiring. Look up your firm here. Let’s crowdsource this baby. You look at your firm and tell us in the comments if somebody surprisingly massacred their summer class, and […]
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Job Searches, NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP)
Statistics About the Lost Generation
Breaking news from the land of totally obvious statistics: the class of 2009 got rogered, but good. The National Law Journal reports that the NALP numbers are out, and the statistics confirm what we all already know: The median number of offers by U.S. law firms for 2010 summer associate positions was seven, according to […] -
Job Searches, NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP)
More Fall-Out From NALP's Minor Recruiting Change
On Friday we reported that, after months of discussion, NALP would be changing to the 45-day open offer period to a 28-day open offer period, and otherwise leaving fall recruiting to proceed much as it has been. Today, we’re learning why NALP decided to abandon more ambitious plans to actually make recruiting better for students, […] -
Job Searches, NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP)
Meet the New NALP Recruiting Guidelines, They're Substantially Similar to the Old NALP Recruiting Guidelines.
If it seems I’m hard on the National Association for Law Placement (NALP), understand that it is out of love. We want NALP to succeed. We want them to gather reliable information from law firms; we want them to provide reasonable guidance for law students, schools, and firms. Having an organization like NALP sounds like […] -
NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP), Vault rankings, Women's Issues
Vault Explains Why It's Better Than NALP
Yesterday we wrote about NALP’s decision to allow firms to blur the equity / non-equity partner distinction. Today, the WSJ Law Blog, the ABA Journal, and Business Insider have coverage of the issue. But NALP isn’t the only organization attempting to gather information on law firm partnerships. Vault is also in that game, and according […] -
NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP)
Hell of a (Jones) Day, Today
We’ve devoted a lot of coverage to the NALP guidelines regarding summer associate hiring. At the beginning of the recruiting season, I suggested that the NALP guidelines were so toothless that law students should disregard them, just as the law firms have done. During the fall recruiting season, Sullivan & Cromwell was eager to ignore […] - Sponsored
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Job Searches, NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP), Summer Associates
New NALP Rules Could Be on the Way
If Kanye West talked about this past fall recruiting season, he’d probably say: “Biglaw doesn’t care about the NALP people.” This fall, we saw firms give the suggested 45-day open offer period an extended middle finger. Harvard Law School’s career services dean had to lead a revolt against Sullivan & Cromwell. I even suggested that […] -
Layoffs, NALP
Nationwide Layoff Watch: Haphazard (Mildly Educated) Guesses at the Winston & Strawn Cuts
In our last post about Winston & Strawn, we covered an “all associates” meeting at which the firm admitted conducting layoffs, but refused to divulge information about their scope. The firm said something along these lines: “Out of respect for the individuals involved, we won’t publicly disclose either future layoffs or past layoff numbers.” Several […] -
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Harvard Law School to the Rescue
[Speaking in the voice of the late, great Don LaFontaine] In a world where 2Ls are terrified. In a time when Biglaw openly flouts NALP rules. There was one man who would not take it anymore. [Cue sweeping and inspiring theme song] That man was Harvard Law School’s Assistant Dean for Career Services, Mark Weber. […] -
Biglaw, Job Searches, NALP, Rudeness, Summer Associates
Accept Your Offers: All of Them
Last recruiting season, Above the Law was the first publication to warn law students to accept their offers for summer employment as soon as possible. This year that advice is so obvious that even law school career service professionals are telling students to accept offers quickly. William A. Chamberlain, assistant dean for law career strategy […] -
Associate Salaries, Biglaw, Money, NALP, Salary Cuts
It's All Downhill From Here? Pay Reaches Apogee, NALP Says
There’s nothing quite like the burning smell of deflation on a Monday morning. NALP has released its associate salary survey. The good news is that the median starting salary for associates is $130,000. The bad news is that there is no way on God’s green earth that the median salary is going to stay that […]
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Biglaw, Job Searches, NALP, Summer Associates
NALP's Numbers on 2009 Summer Programs
Yesterday, we mentioned a NALP “glitch” that allowed users to get a sneak peak at the organization’s 2009 statistics about law firms. The problem, whatever it was, was fixed soon after we alerted NALP to the problem. Here’s the quick statement we obtained from NALP: Legal employers provide this data to NALP each winter. NALP […] -
Biglaw, Job Searches, NALP, Summer Associates
NALP Glitch Gives Early Preview of 2009 Summer Program Numbers
There’s a pretty interesting glitch happening right now over at NALP (here at ATL, we know something about “technical difficulties” — we’re working on ours). Even though the new numbers haven’t been made public yet, if you know what you’re doing you can get a sneak peak at the 2009 NALP numbers. We’re not going […]