Dewey & LeBoeuf has shut offices and cut pay. Now the firm has deferred start dates for its 2009 incoming class to January, 2010.
The firm is offering deferred associates a Community Service Fellowship program, worth $80,000 a year.
Dewey & LeBoeuf is a white shoe law firm formed in 2007 by the merger of Dewey Ballantine and LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae. The firm has 24 offices in 14 countries.