Deferral Stipends

And it seems like only some would-be associates will receive a stipend.

We're beginning to wonder if any other Biglaw firms will be deferring incoming first-years.

Will other Biglaw firms decide to do the same thing with their incoming associates to save money?

Which Biglaw firm's incoming associates aren't starting until 2014?

With apologies to Langston Hughes, we have to ask: What happens to an associate deferred? Does he dry up, like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore — and then run? Run, run — away from Biglaw. That seems to be what at least some deferred associates are doing, as reported last […]