Law Students

Consultant: Don’t Let Deferrals Make You Lazy

If you're an incoming first year associate and your start date has been deferred, use this time to impress your…

Cravath, Swaine & Moore is deferring start dates for incoming first-years. New associates will have the choice of beginning work…

When Morgan Lewis announced yesterday that it is laying off 216 people, it also announced deferred start dates: We will…

Latham & Watkins is offering incoming lawyers $75,000 to take a year off. The firm, which fired 190 lawyers and…

Jeremy D. Protas, an attorney with the intellectual property law firm of Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP, has announced the…

O’Melveny & Myers, which yesterday laid off 90 attorneys and 110 staff positions, is delaying the start date for its…

Cooley Godward Kronish, which previously announced a cyberlaw fellowship, has announced a new diversity fellowship for 1Ls: As part of…

Stanford Law School today announced the appointment of criminologist Joan Petersilia as Professor of Law. Petersilia has spent more than…

The legal job market in Minnesota seems to be getting tighter, as job ads in the state bar publication Bench…

Baker & McKenzie has become the latest law firm to ask its incoming trainees to postpone their start date by…

The Philadelphia District Attorney's Office has rescinded offers to 12 incoming attorneys who were set to start in the fall,…

A National Association for Law Placement survey of 2008 law firm recruiting found that law firms offered fewer summer associate…