The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana has launched a class action lawsuit against the Indiana Board of Law Examiners, alleging that...
San Francisco’s Orrick, which laid off 300 employees in March, has informed its 2009 summers associates that any job offers will not...
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The Chicago Tribune has uncovered a “jobs-for-entry” scandal at the University of Illinois College of Law, in which the law school admitted...
Boston-based Ropes & Gray, which in March deferred its 2009 associate class, is deferring its current summer associates to “no earlier than...
Blank Rome is cutting starting salaries for incoming associates. The rundown is as follows: New York City: $145,000, down from $160,000 Philadelphia...
For months now, Biglaw firms have been offering voluntary, or imposing involuntary, deferral schemes on incoming associates. Now a law school had...
A study by the National Association for Law Placement, or NALP, shows a widening disparity in law firm associate salaries, with most...
Pillsbury has missed its own deadline to inform 22 of its 54 incoming associates that they will be deferred again, to January...
The other day, we reported about layoffs at Harvard Law School. We now know that 12 staffers were let go this week....
DLA Piper is making major changes to its associate program, including further deferrals of associates who were deferred back in April. Eighty-five...
In May, a JDJournal tipster let us know that Harvard Law School planned to cut staff after a 10% budget cut. Yesterday,...
Kaye Scholer is cutting pay for associates who bill under 1,600 hours this year. First- and second-years who aren’t on track to...
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