Major Biglaw Firm Delays Start Date For Some Incoming Associates
Waiting for their legal career to finally begin...
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Prominent Regional Firm To Delay Start Date For First-Year Associates
The firm is the first to defer start dates for incoming associates in 2024. Let's hope this doesn't turn into a trend.
Biglaw Firm Delays Start Date For First-Year Associates In Certain Practice Groups
The firm will be offering a stipend to its deferred associates.
Biglaw Firm Defers Associate Start Dates To 2023 Due To Work Slowdown
Will other Biglaw firms decide to do the same thing with their incoming associates to save money?
Biglaw Firm Pushes First-Year Start Date To Summer 2021
Oof! Are other law firms considering doing the same thing?
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Fall Bonuses Are Great But Remember The Incoming Associates Struggling To Make It To Their Start Dates
These incoming associates aren't in a great position right now.
Biglaw Start Dates: When’s Your Firm Welcoming New Associates?
How Biglaw is dealing with the COVID new normal.
Nationwide Start Date Watch: Who’s Late To The Party?
Which Biglaw firm's incoming associates aren't starting until 2014?
The Great Non-Deferral of 2012
Are start dates for first-year associates at major law firms back to normal, i.e., where they were before the Great Recession? And what about the class sizes for entering associates?
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Firms That Are Still Deferring People Into 2012
Biglaw hiring is picking up, but deferrals are not yet a thing of the past. Proskauer is deferring some of its new blood from 2010 to 2012 (don't worry, you're still on stipend), but letting the class of 2011 start on schedule. Foley & Lardner, on the other hand, is pushing its class of 2011 back to 2012 without a stipend -- harsh.
Good News at O’Melveny & Myers
We have recently covered a number of notable partner departures from O’Melveny & Myers. While some of the losses were “not undesired,” as one source put it, others were bad news for OMM. But, in fairness to the firm, there is good news coming out of O’Melveny these days as well. Let’s discuss some of […]
Start Date Open Thread: Return To Normalcy At Many Firms
A couple of weeks ago, we asked for information about start dates at large law firms. The class of 2011 keeps peppering us with emails about when they can show up for work. Happily, we’ve been hearing that most Biglaw firms will have their incoming classes start on time, in September or October. Most of […]
Start Date Open Thread: When Can The Class of 2011 Start Earning?
During the height of the recession in 2008 and 2009, pushing back start dates was all the rage. Biglaw firms got really creative about when they’d allow people to show up for work. Now you’re not going to believe this, but it turns out that refusing to let people show up for work created other […]
Let’s Do This: Deferred (Then Rescinded) Would-Be Associate Sues Firm
This was bound to happen at some point. There have been countless associates who were promised jobs at law firms. They stopped looking for other jobs in reliance on that job offer. Then during the recession they were deferred, or their offers were rescinded. They are the leading citizens of the Lost Generation. Do they […]