summer associate programs

New York Law Firms Slash Summer Classes

The New York Law Journal has published its annual survey of summer class sizes at New York Biglaw firms. Latham…

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

The 2009 Summer Associate Program at Skadden has begun. And the 3Ls have been warned that, if they get an…

London's Barlow Lyde & Gilbert, which recently opened a fifth office in Manchester, has asked half of its September 2009…

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

Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney has announced that start dates for first-year associates will be deferred from September 2009 to February…

In March, Atlanta's Troutman Sanders said layoffs were likely. Now legal industry news sites have noticed that 28 names have…

Hartford, Connecticut's Robinson & Cole is cutting all associate and counsel salaries by $10,000. The pay cuts are effective immediately,…

Chicago's Chapman and Cutler is taking steps to reduce costs, including laying off an undisclosed number of "underperforming" lawyers, and…

Atlanta-based Alston & Bird is deferring start dates for incoming associates. Summer programs are being reduced to nine weeks. Entering…

Fried Frank laid off 99 employees, lawyers and staff, today. Effective today, we are implementing changes that will result in…