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Biglaw, Job Searches, Job Survey, Rankings, Student Loans
ATL Survey Update: Great Unmet Expectations
Do law students have unreasonable expectations about their employment prospects? Survey says.... -
Biglaw, Boutique Law Firms, Career Center, Job Survey, Law Schools, Midsize Firms / Regional Firms, Small Law Firms
Finally... A Survey for Lawyers and Law Students!
Later this year, Above the Law will be launching a new, expanded Career Center. The new Career Center will be a resource for students and lawyers at all stages of their careers, and in all areas of legal practice (i.e., not just Biglaw). But we can be sure that news and insight into life at […] - Sponsored
Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
If 2023 introduced legal professionals to generative AI, then 2024 will be when law firms start adapting to utilize it. Things are moving fast, so… -
Associate Bonus Watch 2011, Biglaw, Bonuses, Job Survey, Money, Reader Polls
Bonus Season Blues
Perhaps you’ve already heard that Cravath announced its 2011 bonus scale on Monday (swiftly followed by Skadden and Milbank), and apparently it’s 2009 all over again. We can’t help but wonder if this bonus season’s dyspepsia is typical of lawyers and law students generally....
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Holidays and Seasons, Job Survey, Small Law Firms, Travel / Vacation
Size Matters: Small Firms Rule
Valerie Katz would like to thank everyone who participated in her Thanksgiving survey about taking a break for the holidays. She is happy to report that an overwhelming 93.2% of small-firm respondents are able to take time off for holidays. So, is it easier to take time off at Biglaw? -
Associate Bonus Watch 2011, Biglaw, Bonuses, Money, Reader Polls
When Will The Bonuses Come Out? Most Of You Think This Month.
On Friday, our new Breaking Media research guru Brian Dalton started running a poll asking you, our readers, when you thought the bonuses would start flowing. It'll be an interesting test case to rate the predictive power of Biglaw reader groupthink. The numbers say that you expect bonuses to drop any minute now.... -
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Career Center: 2011 Summer Associate Survey Results (Part 2)
I know what you did this summer –- so thanks for filling out the 2011 Summer Associate Experience Survey. We’ve highlighted a few more of the unique and memorable summer programs in 2011. For more summer associate program information, check out the updated summer associate program sections of the law firm profiles on the Career […] -
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Career Center: 2011 Summer Associate Survey Results (and Some Summer Program Superlatives)
Now that 2011 summer programs have officially come to an end at Biglaw firms everywhere, law students are returning to their schools a little less naïve about working in Biglaw, a little bloated from all the free food, and seriously missing their fat summer associate paychecks. But how hard did they have to work, and […] -
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Career Center Survey Results: Who Worked on the Fourth of July?
According to the more than 1,000 responses we received to this week’s Career Center survey, 65% of respondents took the Fourth of July holiday off to celebrate their freedom or something like that. That’s a huge jump from the 27% of respondents who reported not working on Presidents’ Day, and the 34% of respondents who […] - Sponsored
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How to best leverage generative AI as an early adopter with ethical use. -
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Career Center Survey: Did You Work on the Fourth of July?
Back in the winter months, we surveyed Biglaw associates about working on the MLK Day and President’s Day holidays. Well, over half of respondents said they still clocked in on those holidays. But now that the weather is warmer, the barbecue grills are up and running, and partners are on vacation, surely more of you […] -
Job Survey, Money, Small Law Firms
Size Matters: Salary Survey Results
I know that all of you have been anxiously awaiting the results of the salary survey. I had envisioned the results post to be equal in excitement to the results shows for American Idol or Dancing With The Stars. Indeed, in anticipation of this monumental post, I commissioned a group of MIT grad students to […] -
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Career Center Survey Results: Comparing Compensation Systems
Back in 2009, when killing lockstep was all the rage, a number of large law firms announced that they would be moving to some form of a merit-based compensation system. Now that we’re a few years into those systems, how many firms have stuck with the plan? And which systems do associates prefer? Of the […] -
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Career Center Survey: Comparing Compensation Systems
In the throes of the recession, many Biglaw firms jumped on the bandwagon to kill lockstep compensation in favor of a more merit-based system (though some have already fallen off the bandwagon). With a variety of compensation models currently in use among firms today, we want to hear from you about how you get compensated […] -
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Career Center Survey Results: What Counts as Billable Time
If work is slow and you need a good chunk of hours to meet your billable target or to be eligible for a bonus, what’s your best bet for boosting your billables? According to the 884 respondents to Tuesday’s survey, pro bono work. About 68% of respondents say their firms give billable credit for at […]
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Career Center Survey: What Counts as Billable Time?
Lately, many of you have been quite the busy billers, even working on MLK Day and Presidents Day. What undoubtedly keeps most associates on the clock on holidays (and pretty much every day of the year) is client billable work. But are there other kinds of activities for which your firm will give you billable […] -
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Career Center Survey Results: Another Working Holiday
Thank you for all your responses (or attempted responses) to this week’s Career Center survey on whether or not you worked on Presidents Day. We received 715 responses before the flood of respondents managed to take the survey offline. Based on the responses we did receive, the majority of respondents – 73% – reported working […] -
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Career Center Survey: Did You Work On Presidents Day?
Last month, we reported that 66% of survey respondents had to work on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, with 32% of respondents’ firms not even recognizing it as an official firm holiday. In today’s Career Center survey, brought to you by Lateral Link, we want to find out whether you were on or off the […] -
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Career Center Survey Results: A Generation of Debtors (Part 2)
In Part 1 of the Career Center survey results on debt, we reported that 85% of the 3,700 survey respondents have outstanding student loan debt, with more than half of them owing $100,000 or more. We also found that 75% of respondents considered their debt at least as much as other factors when deciding on […] -
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Career Center Survey Results: A Generation of Debtors (Part 1)
We received an overwhelming number of responses – 3,700 – to last week’s Career Center survey on debt and how it contributes to your decision on where to work. We will introduce an overview of the results today, and present a more detailed analysis later in the week. Overall, 93% of respondents report being in […] -
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Career Center Survey: Debt -- The New Four-Letter Word
Not too long ago – you know, when Biglaw firms were begging law students to work for them, no one cared about law school transparency, and having a J.D. guaranteed you a long and prosperous career – signing yourself up for six figures of crushing law school debt didn’t seem like such a big deal. […] -
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Career Center Survey Results: Get Your Bonus ... And Stay
In Tuesday’s survey, we asked whether you left your firm after collecting your 2010 year-end bonus (paid in December for 43% of respondents). About 14% of respondents reported jumping ship after their bonus checks cleared, while another 8% were in such a hurry to leave that they couldn’t bother waiting around for their bonus money. […]