Summer Associates
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Career Center: Learning How to Meditate -- and to Write a Supreme Court Brief Like a MoFo
With the summer coming to an end, we are almost done updating the summer associate profiles for all the firms listed in the Career Center. Along with Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman and WilmerHale, Morrison & Foerster was another one of the firms that encouraged their 2010 summer associates to share their experience with us. […] -
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A Collection of Funny Summer Associate Stories from a Bygone Age
Some people were disappointed in the summer associate tales this year. We had only one really salacious story this summer. (If there were others we missed, email us.) Thank you, Oenophile Olympian, for your addition to the summer associate rules of etiquette. Our schadenfreude-loving readers were terribly disappointed by the scarcity of scandal. Shame on […] - Sponsored
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The Real World: Corporate Law Edition
I have been writing for Above the Law since March of 2008. This Monday, though, will be my last day as a daily contributor. I am heading over to Forbes to write about privacy, law, social media, and technology (aka The Not-So Private Parts). For those who will miss my daily presence on ATL, please […]
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Career Center: WilmerHale's Summer Associates, For the Win
In anticipation of the release of the summer associate survey results, last week we highlighted the firm with the highest response rate among summer associates, Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman. Today we want to congratulate and feature WilmerHale, for having the highest overall number of respondents to the summer associate survey. In a time when […] -
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The 100% Summer Associate Offer Rates Keep Rolling In
This was a year of small summer classes. Fewer summer associates mean a greater likelihood that all will get offers… unless a law student does something egregious. (Good news for rising 2Ls: There are signs that next year’s classes will be larger.) Latham & Watkins and Gibson Dunn had the biggest summer associate classes this […] -
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Summer Associate Etiquette 101: Share Your Bottle of Wine
There was not much in the way of summer associate scandal this year. There were fewer summer associates at law firms, and they were on their best behavior — resulting in 100% offer rates at many firms. This meant, though, that the stream of summer associate stories was disappointingly dry. (Of course, if you have […] -
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More Summer Associate Classes With 100% Offer Rates
Some summer associates are ending their summers on a very positive note. Quite a few firms have already informed law school students that after this summer fling, they’re interested in a more serious relationship. Since our last round-up of offices extending offers to 100% of their summer associates, we’ve heard from a few more contented […] -
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Career Center: A Good Summer at Kasowitz
Thanks to the over 500 people who responded to our summer associate survey and to all the firms who participated in distributing the survey to their summer associates. We will be rolling out the updated Career Center Firm Snapshots in several weeks, but wanted to give you a sneak peak of some of the results. […] - Sponsored
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Things Are Looking Up: More Summer Associate Classes Get 100% Offer News
We feel like we’re taking magic Biglaw pills today and having hallucinatory flashbacks to 2006. The good news has been rolling in. Just today, we covered raises at Sheppard Mullin, and a 100% offer rate for D.C. summer associates at Latham & Watkins. And over at Am Law Daily, Zach Lowe predicts good things for […] -
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Latham & Watkins: 100% Offers to Summers in D.C.
A week ago, we reported that Pepper Hamilton surprised its summer associates with 100% offers at a Friday lunch. Now this is a trend we hope catches on. And maybe it will. Latham & Watkins surprised its D.C. summers during a rooftop extravaganza, yesterday. A tipster reports: Last night (Thursday), Latham & Watkins’ D.C. office […] -
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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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Akin Gump Summers Ice Some Bros
It’s about time a group of summer associates grew a backbone and showed some personality. At Akin Gump, a group of summers decided to “ice” some of the full-time associates at the firm. In case you’ve been living under a rock, BrosIcingBros is was a website devoted to friends forcing friends to chug a gawd-awful […] -
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Dewey & LeBoeuf 'Pauses' 2011 Summer Program at a Few Offices
‘Tis the season of summer program cancellations. Just don’t call them cancellations. Today we’ve learned that Dewey & LeBoeuf has “paused” its 2011 summer program in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Houston. You can really see the difficulty of the situation faced by Biglaw firms. Here we are in July of 2010, and firms are supposed […]
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Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
In this CLE-eligible webinar, we’ll explore the most common accounting pitfalls and how to avoid them for your firm.
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Pepper Hamilton, Summer Associates
Pepper Hamilton Surprises Its Philly Summers with a 100% Offer Rate
We’ve had our first report of summer offer rates. The news comes to us from the cheesesteak city. Pepper Hamilton gave out offers in its Philadelphia office on Friday, and it did it with style. We’re told that the office’s 11 summer associates — 8 2Ls and 3 1Ls — went to lunch together on […] -
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Which Firms Aren't Having 2011 Summer Associate Programs?
On-campus interviewing for 2011 summer associate positions is getting underway, or about to get underway, at many law schools. And this OCI process will give us some insight into what different firms are up to and how they are doing. The OCI schedules can shed light on several questions. Which firms are ramping up hiring […] -
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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 Associate Email Etiquette: The Four Commandments?
There are many big questions in life. For example, email etiquette. “To” or “dear” or just a name? “Best” or “best regards” or “sincerely” or just your initials? Instant response or tasteful 15-minute delay? Like many of the big questions, it’s hard to come up with definitive answers. But one summer associate has a core […] -
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Career Center: A Report on 2009 Summer Programs
Now that we have kicked off the 2010 Summer Associate Satisfaction Survey, we wanted to share with you some of the highlights from the reports on the 2009 firm summer programs. If you are a current summer associate, click here to take our short survey about your experiences this summer at your firm. The summer […] -
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Summer Fashion Tips
This month’s heat wave forced professional types to start desperately thinking about whether spaghetti straps and speedos are appropriate attire for the office. (Hint: they’re not.) Many offices do go casual over the summer, though. At Weil Gotshal, for example, you can buy your way into a pair of jeans on Friday. Says a tipster […] -
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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? […]