defers start dates

Mintz Levin Defers Start Dates — Again

Boston’s Mintz Levin, which cut associate salaries this month, is deferring start dates for members of its incoming 2009 associates…

Skadden will hold its Summer associates program in 2010, but with less than half as many associates than in 2009.…

McCann Fitzgerald, which in May cut 25 employees through a voluntary redundancy program, has deferred some of its trainees' start…

DLA Piper is deferring its current summer associates to January 2011 at least, and will offer a voluntary deferral to…

DLA Piper is making major changes to its associate program, including further deferrals of associates who were deferred back in…

Pinsent Masons, which is in the midst of a redundancy consultation, has asked 25% of its incoming trainees to defer…

In April, New York’s Shearman & Sterling deferred its 2009 associate class. Incoming associates were offered a stipend to defer…

Corrs has delayed the start dates for its 2009 recruits, paying stipends of US$1,740 each. In March, the firm implemented…

First, Manhattan's Skadden announced that 2009 Summer Associate Program 3Ls, if they are offered jobs, will not begin until 2011.…

Texas' Thompson & Knight has laid off 17 associates, including two first-years, and 25 staff. The layoffs targeted the real…

Morrison & Foerster has informed 40% of its incoming associate class that their start date has been pushed to April…

Late last year, New York City's Schulte Roth & Zabel laid off 30 lawyers. This week the firm asked 20…