Norton Rose Offers Trainees Cash to Defer Start Dates
Norton Rose has offered trainees due to join the firm in 2009 and 2010 up to £10,000 to defer the…
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Cooley Establishes ‘Cyber’ Fellowship at Harvard
Law firm Cooley Godward Kronish has established a fellowship at Harvard Law School’s Cyber Law Clinic at the Berkman Center…
Freshfields Delays Start Dates
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is asking some of its trainees to push back their start dates with the firm. A number…
AmLaw: The Coming Law Firm Hiring Crisis
The American Lawyer expects a "a paradigm-shifting, blood-in-the-suites, terror-on-the-campus hiring and retention crisis" in 2009. If nothing changes, this fall…
Law Schools Begin Furloughing Employees
The National Law Journal reports that public universities and law schools are making their faculty and staff take unpaid time…
Brooklyn Law School Freezes Salaries
New York City's Brooklyn Law School has announced it will freeze faculty salaries, in order to keep 2009 tuition increases…
Lecture Series Promotes Alternative Legal Careers
From the Indiana University News Room, a new lecture series discusses alternative careers for law school grads. Facing an uncertain…
Update: Controversy Continues Over Fired Law School Dean
In December we reported that the sudden firing of Duquesne University School of Law Dean Donald Guter had provoked controversy…
Clifford Chance Launches Fellowship for 1Ls
Clifford Chance announced today a joint effort with the Georgetown University Law Center to establish the Clifford Chance International Public…
Weil Gotshal Associate Never Graduated, Never Passed Bar
Tipsters tell Above the Law that an associate at New York-based Weil, Gotshal & Manges has been fired for lying…
Illinois Disqualifies 587 Attorneys
The Attorney Registration & Disciplinary Commission, an agency of the Illinois Supreme Court, has booted 587 active attorneys from the…
Recent Law School Grads Found Law Firm
The Kansas City Star has a story about two recent law school grads who, unable to find a law firm…