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Start Dates, Summer Associates
Proskauer Rose Defers Current Summers to 2011
Proskauer Rose has joined the growing list of firms to defer current summer associates to 2011. But unlike other firms on that list, the Proskauer deferral pushes the 2010 class to “fall” 2011. Other firms have at least told their summer associates that they could start in January 2011. Proskauer has already deferred its incoming […] -
Job Searches, Start Dates, Summer Associates
DLA Piper: Pushes Back Current Summers Like Weil, Delays 2010 Summer Recruiting Like Orrick
DLA Piper, one of the biggest law firms in the country (and the world), has added its voice to the changing nature of Biglaw summer programs. In a letter sent to law school deans and career service officers (and obtained by Above the Law), DLA Piper announced it was deferring its current summers and delaying […] - Sponsored
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Deferral Stipend, Start Dates
Quinn Defers Half of the Incoming First Years in S.F. & Silicon Valley
If you are an incoming first year at Quinn Emanuel’s San Francisco or Silicon Valley office, you are probably on the final stretch of your CA bar exam preparations. If so, please stop reading this post right now. We don’t want to put any extra pressure on you guys. For everybody else, you might be […]
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Deferral Stipend, Start Dates, Summer Associates
Weil Gotshal Defers Current Summer Associates to 2011 or 2012
Big news from Weil Gotshal today. The firm previously deferred its incoming associates to January 2010, with the option of deferring until January 2011 (with a $75,000 stipend). In recognition of the fact that it will have some of the class of 2009 starting in January 2011, the firm is offering current summers — i.e., […] -
Hogan & Hartson, Start Dates, Summer Associates
Hogan & Hartson Pushes Back Start Dates for Current Summers to 2011
Hogan & Hartson has already pushed back start dates for its incoming first year associates. The firm has laid off staff and laid off associates. And the firm has lowered associate salaries. With all that writing on the wall, current Hogan summer associates couldn’t have been terribly surprised by today’s news. Here’s part of an […] -
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Mixed Messages From DLA Piper to Incoming First Years?
Incoming DLA Piper associates have to feel a little queasy about the state of the firm. DLA has already laid off 180 U.S. employees (and 140 people in the U.K.). And the firm has pushed back start dates to January 2010 for some associates, while encouraging incoming first year associates to use its Public Interest […] -
Deferral Stipend, Start Dates, Summer Associates
Ropes & Gray: Defers Current Summers to 2011
If the class of 2009 is like the main cast on Lost, then the class of 2010 is starting to look like the Tailies. Ropes & Gray has decided to defer its current summer class until “Sometime, 2011.” Here is the firm-wide memo that all Ropes & Gray associates received last week: As we recently […] -
Deferral Stipend, Start Dates
Pillsbury Incoming Associates Still Waiting to Hear When They Can Start
Back in May, we reported that Pillsbury Winthrop wanted some of its incoming first year associates to defer until January 2010, some to defer until 2011, and others to take $60,000 to go away entirely. The firm couched all of these options as “voluntary.” But notwithstanding the firm’s choice of language, we reported that Pillsbury […] - Sponsored
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Deferral Stipend, Start Dates
Deferred Associates Cause Ethical Dilemma and the Booting of Clerks in Massachusetts
Last week, the Massachusetts Trial Court got approval for a unique solution to address its budget shortfall, reported Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly: The Supreme Judicial Court’s Committee on Judicial Ethics has approved a proposal by Chief Justice for Administration and Management Robert A. Mulligan that would allow deferred law-firm associates to work for the Trial Court […] -
Biglaw, Deferral Stipend, Start Dates
Profitable Law Firms Don't Do Deferrals ... For the Most Part
This isn’t going to come as a galloping shock to most people, but it turns out that the firms that are making the most profit aren’t feeling the need to defer their incoming first year associates. Am Law Daily reports: The only top ten firm that is making deferrals mandatory this year is Schulte, Roth […] -
Deferral Stipend, Start Dates, Summer Associates
Cravath Offers Voluntary Deferral to Class of 2009 -- and Delays Class of 2010 a Full Year
The venerable firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore has entered the building, and it’s asking up to half of its incoming first-years to take a year off. Cravath is offering a voluntary deferral option to its incoming associates, according to multiple Above the Law sources (as well as Bloomberg News). If the incoming associates are […] -
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Shearman & Sterling Start Date Watch: You Better Hurry
Incoming first years at Shearman & Sterling have been trying to figure out when they can start at the firm. A couple of months ago, the firm said that December 2009 would be the earliest start date. But Shearman also encouraged its incoming first years to defer until September 2010, while promising those deferrals that […] -
Deferral Stipend, Layoffs, Start Dates
Fish & Richardson Puts One-Third Of Its Incoming Associates On Ice
Last week, Fish & Richardson laid off 120 people. It was the second round of layoffs from the firm this year. But that wasn’t the end of Fish’s cost cutting measures. Yesterday, the firm effectively “cold offered” one-third of its incoming first year associate class. Another third of the class will start on time, and […]
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Start Dates, Summer Associates
Skadden Summers: Welcome to the New MarketClass of 2010 start dates pushed to 2011.
Summer associates started at Skadden yesterday, and it doesn’t look like the firm hid the ball when it came to talking about market realities. We have news about expected offers and start dates for the class of 2010 — and it’s not even Memorial Day. At one of the summer associate welcome meetings, summers were […] -
Deferral Stipend, Start Dates
Pillsbury: Let's Try This Whole 'Voluntary Departure' Thing One More Time
Back in February — after the Acela fiasco, before the layoffs — Pillsbury offered a voluntary departure program to its associates. The program didn’t really work, and the firm ended up laying off 55 associates (155 employees in all), in March. Undaunted, Pillsbury is offering another “voluntary” program, this time directed at its incoming first […] -
Deferral Stipend, Start Dates
News For Incoming Associates at Kirkland and Sidley Austin(And a New Start Date Round-up)
Incoming associates at Kirkland & Ellis got good news today. They get to start in 2009! November, to be exact. We’ve added the firm to our start date round-up, after the jump. New associates heading to Sidley Austin, on the other hand, got “optional deferral” news. The firm e-mailed incoming associates yesterday announcing the “Pro […] -
Deferral Stipend, Start Dates
Nationwide Start Date Watch: MoFo Comes Up With an Interesting Package
At the beginning of April, incoming first years started worrying about the fact that Morrison & Foerster hadn’t announced start dates. At the time, the firm said that they would let people know by May 11th. We counseled: Just because the firm is waiting until May, it doesn’t mean you have to. Try to secure […] -
Layoffs, Salary Cuts, Start Dates
Nationwide Layoff Watch: Seyfarth Shaw Cuts 50, Cuts Salaries, Cuts Back on Summer Program
Seyfarth Shaw just announced an extensive “hybrid tough love” package. The firm is laying off employees as well as cutting salaries. It is also reducing the length of the summer program and pushing back start dates. According to a firm wide memo, 50 people will be let go: Today, we have completed a reduction in […] -
Deferral Stipend, Start Dates, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan
Stroock Offers $75,000 in Stay Away Money
These incoming associate deferrals are getting out of control. Stroock is the latest firm to come up with an innovative plan to deal with its new class of first years. Above the Law has been able to confirm that Stroock is offering incoming first years a payment of $75,000 to leave the firm by July […] -
Andrews Kurth, Faegre & Benson, Start Dates
Nationwide Start Date Round-up: More Firms Join The List
Many law school graduates are preparing for an endless summer. Endless in that they won’t be starting work until well into the winter. At this point, the majority of firms are starting 2009 graduates in January 2010. There are some outliers though — some firms are starting new associates as early as September 2009, and […]