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Biglaw, Job Searches, Summer Associates
Which Biglaw Firm Is Rescinding Offers?
Which firm is making its would-be associates scramble for new jobs? Could it be yours? -
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Klassy Student Posts All His Offer Letters For His Fellow Students
Joe and Elie look at a Facebook kerfuffle between a student who posted his offer letters and another who called him out as a tool. - 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… -
Biglaw, Cold Offers, Job Searches, Kasowitz Benson, NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP), No Offers, Summer Associates
A Rescinded Offer Is Better Than A Cold Offer, Right?
Additional allegations of shady behavior by a Biglaw firm.
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Biglaw, Job Searches, Kasowitz Benson, NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP), Screw-Ups, Summer Associates
A Fall Recruiting Debacle: One Firm Decides To Go Explode Some Offers
Yikes! What would you do if put in such a situation? -
Biglaw, Cold Offers, Job Searches, Law Schools, No Offers, Summer Associates
What Should You Do If You Get No-Offered?
What should you do if you get no-offered? Here are several strategies. -
Biglaw, Crowell & Moring, Summer Associates
Summer Associate Offer Rates (2012): Not Every Biglaw Firm Handed Out Offers Like Candy!
Which Biglaw firms had summer associate offer rates below 100 percent? -
Biglaw, Email Scandals, Job Searches, Rudeness, Summer Associates
The Best Way to Brag About an Offer Is Under the Guise of Charity
With offer season well under way, some law students may be wondering how to tell the world that they've landed summer associate jobs without sounding like complete braggarts. Maybe you're a law student who feels only slightly guilty bragging about a job offer, so you think up a creative way to broach the subject with peers? One law student at a leading law school has got this method of breaking the news about offers on lock.... -
Biglaw, Job Searches, No Offers, Parties, Quote of the Day, Summer Associates
Quote of the Day: For The Times They Are A-Changin'
Before the recession, summer associates didn't have to work so hard for their offers. They were more interested in partying. Now, it is the work that counts, and the partying is just an added bonus.... - Sponsored
The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
ChatGPT ushers in the age of generative AI – even for law firms. -
Associate Salaries, Biglaw, Money, Schiff Hardin, Summer Associates
Nationwide Pay Raise Watch: Schiff Hardin (Plus offer rate news.)
August is a boring month, but we still have pockets of law firm news to report, here and there. Today's dispatch comes from Schiff Hardin, which earlier this month announced an associate pay raise.... -
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Career Center: An Offer Is Just the Beginning
In this week’s Career Center Summer Associate Tips Series, Lateral Link’s Frank Kimball, an expert recruiter and former Biglaw hiring partner, discusses the importance of evaluating your summer associate offer. Succeeding in a summer program means more than receiving an offer of employment. While receiving an offer is probably the most important objective of a […] -
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Career Center Tip of the Day: Evaluating the Counteroffer — Should You Stay or Should You Go? (Part 5)
In the first four parts of our Career Center “Tip of the Day” series, focused on how to evaluate a counteroffer, we covered the importance of re-evaluating your current employment situation, assessing what the new firm is offering, analyzing the counteroffer of your current firm, and considering the ramifications (both tangible and intangible) of accepting […] -
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Career Center Tip of the Day: Evaluating the Counteroffer — Should You Stay or Should You Go? (Part 4)
In the first, second and third parts of our Career Center “Tip of the Day” series, focused on how to evaluate a counteroffer, we covered the importance of re-evaluating your current employment situation, assessing what the new firm is offering, and analyzing the counteroffer of your current firm. It is now time for you to […] -
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Career Center Tip of the Day: Evaluating the Counteroffer — Should You Stay or Should You Go? (Part 3)
In the first and second parts of our Career Center “Tip of the Day” series, focused on how to evaluate a counteroffer, we covered the importance of re-evaluating your current employment situation and assessing what the new firm is offering you, to determine whether it addresses the issues/shortfalls of your current firm. Today we’ll discuss […]
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Associate Advice, Biglaw, Career Center, Job Searches, Shameless Plugs, This Is an Ad
Career Center Tip of the Day: Evaluating the Counteroffer — Should You Stay or Should You Go? (Part 2)
In the first part of our Career Center “Tip of the Day” series, focused on how to evaluate a counteroffer, we covered the importance of re-evaluating your current employment situation to remind yourself of the reasons why you began your job search in the first place. Today we’ll discuss how to assess what the new […] -
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Career Center Tip of the Day: Evaluating the Counteroffer -- Should You Stay or Should You Go? (Part 1)
The current installment of the Career Center “Tip of the Day” series focuses on helping associates evaluate the counteroffer. Since most law firms have trimmed the “fat” and reduced the number of attorneys on their payrolls, associates have been working harder and billing record hours. It is not surprising that many associates will be searching […] -
Biglaw, Drinking, Job Searches, No Offers, Recovery, Summer Associates
Anatomy of a No Offer
Ed. Note: Will the Lost Generation ever find its way back into Biglaw? This new column is written by a member of the Lost Generation who initially was thrown off of the Biglaw bandwagon but was able to get back on, and is now trying to hang on to his Biglaw second chance. When I […] -
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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 […]