For the second time in two weeks, a major law firm has bucked the trend and asked associates to start early. Mayer...
It seemed like a match made in heaven – thanks to a struggling economy, Massachusetts was unable to fill all of the...
Boston’s Mintz Levin, which cut associate salaries this month, is deferring start dates for members of its incoming 2009 associates class, again....
Proskauer Rose, which in July deferred its current Summer associates to Fall 2011, is also deferring its deferred 2009 incoming associate class...
Seyfarth Shaw, which laid off 50 people in May, has announced it will not host a Summer associate program in 2010. The...
Weil, Gotshal & Manges announced in March that it was deferring its incoming associates’ start dates to January 2010, and is asking...
Boston-based Ropes & Gray, which in March deferred its 2009 associate class, is deferring its current summer associates to “no earlier than...
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London’s Barlow Lyde & Gilbert has launched a redundancy consultation targeting 49 lawyers. Trainees and staffers will not be affected. In April,...
Pillsbury has missed its own deadline to inform 22 of its 54 incoming associates that they will be deferred again, to January...
Pinsent Masons, which is in the midst of a redundancy consultation, has asked 25% of its incoming trainees to defer their start...
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s Committee on Judicial Ethics has signed off on a proposal that would allow deferred law-firm associates to...
In April, New York’s Shearman & Sterling deferred its 2009 associate class. Incoming associates were offered a stipend to defer to 2010....
