Law Students

DLA Piper Defers its Deferred Associates

DLA Piper is making major changes to its associate program, including further deferrals of associates who were deferred back in…

In May, a JDJournal tipster let us know that Harvard Law School planned to cut staff after a 10% budget…

Kaye Scholer is cutting pay for associates who bill under 1,600 hours this year. First- and second-years who aren't on…

Pinsent Masons, which is in the midst of a redundancy consultation, has asked 25% of its incoming trainees to defer…

The new UC Irvine School of Law, which opens this fall, has hired seven new faculty members, bringing its total…

In May, London’s Freshfields announced that only 14 of its class of 48 trainees set to start this Fall would…

Most students receiving financial aid from Harvard Law School are required to work for 10 weeks over the summer, the…

Albany Law School has announced a 94% employment rate in legal positions for its 2008 graduating class, outpacing the national…

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's Committee on Judicial Ethics has signed off on a proposal that would allow deferred law-firm…

Incoming associates at Cincinnati's Frost Brown Todd will get a lower salary, although specific numbers have not been released. In…

Cravath, which in March deferred its 150-member incoming associate class to October or November 2009 or January 2010, has some…

In April, New York’s Shearman & Sterling deferred its 2009 associate class. Incoming associates were offered a stipend to defer…