Summer Associates
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Biglaw, Summer Associates
Summer Associate Offer Rates (2015): Is Your Firm Keeping It 100?
Which Biglaw firms went on a summer associate job offer spree? -
Biglaw, Contests, Summer Associates
What Was The Best Biglaw Summer Associate Event Of 2015?
We look forward to your nominations! - Sponsored
The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
ChatGPT ushers in the age of generative AI – even for law firms. -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 07.20.15
* What do Moe Greene (RIP Alex Rocco) and the Foreign Corruption Practices Act have in common? Beside, of course, trying to stand up to the Godfather… [FCPA Compliance and Ethics Blog]
* Bet this was a sentence you didn’t think you’d read after Scalia’s whiny dissent in Obergefell: Scalia may have helped the LGBT cause. [Slate]
* Are you halfway through your summer associateship and have no idea how you’re doing? Well, your firm isn’t likely to illuminate much, so here’s a self-assessment to peruse. [Ms. JD]
* “Are attorneys using AOL (as their email address) SOL?” Maybe not in their legal practice, but in another, more profound way, yes. Yes they are. [J.Key J.D.]
* Do attorneys actually need help saying “me first?” Well, if you’re the outlier, here’s some help. [Attorney At Work]
* In sentencing disgraced former Representative Michael Grimm, U.S. District Judge Pamela K. Chen ignored 35 letters in support of leniency for Grimm and quoted extensively from an activist’s letter blasting the former Congressman for “his lack of morals and unscrupulous actions.” [Staten Island Advance]
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Career Center, Career Files, Law Students, Summer Associates
From The Career Files: Results from the Swimming Lessons For Baby Sharks/Above The Law Millennial Survey
Associates feel welcome, want more feedback, and are split on partnership. And many don’t record all their time. -
Biglaw, Interview Stories, Summer Associates
7 Epic Examples Of On-Campus-Interviewing Fails
These stories are funny, but they're also educational. -
Biglaw
Is Your Firm On The 'Most Fun' Summer Programs List? (2015)
Which firms cracked Vault's list of best summer programs? -
Biglaw, Interview Stories, Summer Associates
OCI Is Around The Corner; How Can Law Students Ace The 20-Minute Interview?
Biglaw hiring partners offer their tips for the interview process. -
Biglaw, Summer Associates
Major Biglaw Firm Thinks It Can Get Away With Charging Clients For Summer Associate Work
Did the firm seriously think anyone would be willing to pay for that? - Sponsored
Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
How to best leverage generative AI as an early adopter with ethical use. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 07.08.15
* FYI, it may be a “nine-week job interview—for both sides,” but summer associates hardly have room to complain when they’re being wined, dined, and paid up to $3,000 per week to work at the Biglaw firms where they landed jobs. [Wall Street Journal (sub. req.)]
* Hot take alert: Per our favorite (and sometimes controversial) blogging jurist, Richard Kopf of the District of Nebraska, “Senator Ted Cruz is not fit to be President” because he wants to allow voters to boot SCOTUS justices. [WSJ Law Blog]
* Maria Mitousis, the divorce lawyer who was seriously injured after a bomb allegedly mailed to her by a client’s ex-husband exploded in her office, says she’ll be back to work ASAP. Her hand got blown off and she still wants to bill. What’s your excuse? [CBC News]
* Former Galveston County (Texas) Court-at-Law Judge Christopher Dupuy was recently arrested and charged with two counts of online harassment after he allegedly created sex ads featuring his exes. He sounds like a real winner, y’all. [Crimesider / CBS News]
* This prospective law student got a 173 on the LSAT and wants to know whether it would be advisable to retake the exam. Are you actually kidding me with this? You’ll get in almost anywhere with a 173 and a pulse. [Law Admissions Lowdown / U.S. News & World Report]
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Biglaw
Biglaw Firm Decimates Summer Associate Program
Major firm announces that it's more or less eliminating its summer associate program. Is this the beginning of a trend? And if it is, is that a good thing? -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 06.30.15
* Which Biglaw firm is going to be changing up the way that it recruits new attorneys? That would be Quinn Emanuel. It’s planning to majorly scale back on summer associates and do something completely different. We’ll have more on this news later today. [WSJ Law Blog]
* An undergrad who once had high hopes for law school decided to ditch his legal aspirations in favor of stand-up comedy. His mom is mad since it’s a “path that has no specific stability.” She obviously hasn’t read up on law school job stats lately. [Indy Channel]
* Justice Kennedy should consider trading in his robes for a superhero’s cape, because he just swooped in to the rescue, again. With a 5-4 vote, SCOTUS stayed the Fifth Circuit’s decision regarding the closure of the majority of abortion clinics in Texas. [NPR]
* Damn you, Dewey leaders! Per recent testimony in the criminal trial of the failed firm’s former top brass, but for news of the criminal probe spreading like wildfire throughout the profession, D&L could’ve merged with any number of firms to save itself. [Am Law Daily]
* Some pretty major firms think they have better things to spend their Biglaw bucks on than donations to legal aid organizations. Only five firms were willing to publicly disclose more than $1 million in donations. [DealBook / New York Times via American Lawyer]
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Career Center, Career Files, Law Students, Summer Associates
From The Career Files: Swimming Lessons For Baby Sharks, Practical Advice For New Lawyers
It takes a village to raise a child; it takes a team to do great legal work. -
Biglaw, Technology
When Millennials Rule The World Of Law
Tech is going to change the way firms bill, train, and manage all aspects of the practice. That's not a prediction, it's an inevitability.
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The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
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Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
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Biglaw, Career Center, Career Files, Summer Associates
From The Career Files: Swimming Lessons For Baby Sharks -- Practical Advice For New Lawyers
Here are some more important tips for succeeding as a summer associate, including remembering that law firms are businesses. -
Biglaw, Perks / Fringe Benefits, Summer Associates
Summer Associate Perk Watch: A Warm Welcome At MoFo
What's your firm doing to show its love for summer associates? -
Career Center, Career Files, Law Students, Summer Associates
From The Career Files: What Do I Need To Do To Succeed As A Summer Associate?
Q: What do I need to do to succeed as a summer associate? Are there differences between what I need to do as a summer and a first-year associate? -
Sponsored Content, Summer Associates
What ATL Editors Wish They Knew As Summer Associates
When the ATL editors were young summer associates. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.27.15
* It’s summer associate season in Biglaw, so here are some tips to help you not completely screw up your futures. (But if you do catch someone misbehaving, make sure to send your friends here at ATL a tip.) [MoneyBeat / Wall Street Journal]
* Break out the vuvuzelas, because Loretta Lynch just scored herself a gigantic GOOOOAAAALLLL!!!! Several of FIFA’s top officials were arrested in Switzerland for extradition to America to face federal corruption charges over years of alleged racketeering and wire fraud. [New York Times]
* “Not all the evidence that you hear and see will be riveting.” The Dewey & LeBoeuf financial crimes trial may be sexy for Biglaw aficianados, but at least one of the prosecutors on the case had the courtesy to warn jurors they’d be bored. [Am Law Daily]
* Which Biglaw firms are the best places for new fathers to work? According to a recent report from Fatherly, a digital parenting resource for men, Arnold & Porter, Alston & Bird, and Baker Donelson all have pretty nice paternity leave policies. [Nooga.com; Fatherly]
* At some law firms, working part-time or on a flexible schedule isn’t necessarily a career killer for women, but that doesn’t change the fact that at other firms, doing so means that “they’re no longer on that partnership/management track.”[Crain’s Chicago Business]
* Daniel Meltzer, Story Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, former Principal Deputy Counsel to President Obama, and federal courts scholar, RIP. [Legal Theory Blog]
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Biglaw, Summer Associates
Biglaw's Top Rated Summer Programs
Which firms are most highly rated by their summers? Our survey asks current and former summers to rate their employers based on the categories of Compensation, Hours, Firm Morale, Training, and Culture and Colleagues. -
Biglaw, Sponsored Content, Summer Associates
I Know What I Should Have Done Last Summer
Former Biglaw lawyer talks about summers.