A Rescinded Offer Is Better Than A Cold Offer, Right?
Additional allegations of shady behavior by a Biglaw firm.
What Should You Do If You Get No-Offered?
What should you do if you get no-offered? Here are several strategies.
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Summer Associate Offer Rates (2013): A Round-Up
Which major law firms issued offers to all of their associates? Here are more names.
Summer Associate Offer Rates (2013): Open Thread
Which law firms issued offers to all of their summer associates?
Nationwide Layoff and No-Offer Watch: In Defense of Winston & Strawn
We covered recent associate layoffs and summer associate no-offers at Winston & Strawn. Here's some follow-up -- including words in support of the firm.
Nationwide Layoff and No-Offer Watch: Winston & Strawn
We're hearing reports of stealth layoffs and no-offers for summer associates at Winston & Strawn. What are the numbers looking like?
AI Is Reshaping Legal Practice—But Tools Aren’t The Real Differentiator.
Explore the mindset, cultural shifts, and training strategies that define the AI‑savvy lawyer, revealing why human judgment, standardized competence, and integrated learning—not technology alone—will shape the future of the profession.
Summer Associate Offer Rates (2012): A Round-Up
Which firms are making job offers to 100 percent of their summer associates? A whole lot of them....
Summer Associate Offer Rates (2012): Open Thread
Summer associate programs are winding down, and offer rate news is trickling in. What are we hearing?
Biglaw Blind Item: An Ice-Cold Offer
Now that Labor Day is behind us, fall is fast approaching. You can tell by the chill in the evening air. Or is that just the cold offers we're feeling? We recently heard a story about a pretty cold offer. This summer associate, who wasn't the most popular person in her class, received a full-time employment offer "contingent upon obtaining a federal clerkship." Given how hard it is to land a federal judicial clerkship, that's a pretty cold offer. But wait, it gets better....
Summer Associate Offer Rates: Another Update
(Now we’d like to hear about the no-offering….)
Welcome to our latest round-up of summer associate offer rate news. This post contains the latest list of law firms and offices with 100 percent offer rates. Time to pop the bubbly....
Why Experience Still Matters In An AI-Driven Legal Industry
A conversation with Trustpoint.One CEO Christopher Gallagher.
Summer Associate Offer Rates: An Update
Since our initial call for information about summer associate offer rates at major law firms, a number of people have contacted us with reports. As it turns out, there's a lot of good news floating around out there for summer associates. 100% offer rates abound. Let's round them up....
Career Center: There is Life After the ‘No Offer’
It is the end of the summer and it happened: NO OFFER! Looking back at your summer you are completely caught off-guard. You kissed the right butts, you avoided grabbing the wrong butts, you chewed with your mouth closed, you only got blackout drunk twice, and you even managed to turn in a memo or […]
Summer Associate Offer Rates: Open Thread
Last week, summer associate programs began to draw to a close, and law students are eager to find out if they'll be getting offers of full-time employment. Above the Law has received various reports from summer associates at Biglaw firms, crowing about 100 percent offer rates....
Career Center: The Mysterious Summer Offer Rate
So how do firms decide how many summer associates will get permanent offers? Why do some firms have high offer rates, while others tread closer to the 50% offer range? The law firm recruiting process is very similar to the rush process of fraternities and sororities. There are a ton of drinking and “rush events” […]
Updated NALP Forms: What Were the Real Offer Rates?
It’s a wonderful time of year. No more innuendo: NALP forms have been updated, and firms have had to come clean with their statistics on summer hiring. Look up your firm here. Let’s crowdsource this baby. You look at your firm and tell us in the comments if somebody surprisingly massacred their summer class, and […]