Pinsent Masons, which is in the midst of a redundancy consultation, has asked 25% of its incoming trainees to defer their start...
The new UC Irvine School of Law, which opens this fall, has hired seven new faculty members, bringing its total number of...
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In May, London’s Freshfields announced that only 14 of its class of 48 trainees set to start this Fall would be retained....
Most students receiving financial aid from Harvard Law School are required to work for 10 weeks over the summer, the traditional length...
Albany Law School has announced a 94% employment rate in legal positions for its 2008 graduating class, outpacing the national average of...
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s Committee on Judicial Ethics has signed off on a proposal that would allow deferred law-firm associates to...
Incoming associates at Cincinnati’s Frost Brown Todd will get a lower salary, although specific numbers have not been released. In addition, the...
Cravath, which in March deferred its 150-member incoming associate class to October or November 2009 or January 2010, has some more deferring...
In April, New York’s Shearman & Sterling deferred its 2009 associate class. Incoming associates were offered a stipend to defer to 2010....
Two senior partners at Edinburgh law firm Tods Murray have quit to join crosstown rival Anderson Strathern. John Biggar, a former chairman...
Wiggin and Dana, which in March laid off 14 attorneys and 14 staff, has deferred its incoming associates to February 2010. Those...
Connecticut’s Shipman & Goodwin, which cut 26 jobs in April, is deferring three of its eight incoming associates. The three associates joining...
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