Last week, Fish & Richardson laid off 120 people. It was the second round of layoffs from the firm this year. But that wasn’t the end of Fish’s cost cutting measures. Yesterday, the firm effectively “cold offered” one-third of its incoming first year associate class. Another third of the class will start on time, and…
Tags: Cold Offers
It’s a wonderful time of year. No more innuendo: NALP forms have been updated, and firms have had to come clean with their statistics on summer hiring. Look up your firm here. Let’s crowdsource this baby. You look at your firm and tell us in the comments if somebody surprisingly massacred their summer class, and…
Tags: Biglaw, Cold Offers, Covington, Covington & Burling, Debevoise, Debevoise & Plimpton, Job Offers, Job Searches, NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP), No Offers, Offer Rates, Summer Associates, Wachtell, Wachtell Lipton
Last week, summer associate programs began to draw to a close, and law students are eager to find out if they’ll be getting offers of full-time employment. Above the Law has received various reports from summer associates at Biglaw firms, crowing about 100 percent offer rates….
Tags: Biglaw, Chadbourne & Parke, Cold Offers, Dechert, Gibson Dunn, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Job Searches, Jones Day, K&L Gates, Latham & Watkins, No Offers, O'Melveny & Myers, Offer Rates, Proskauer Rose, Ropes & Gray, Shearman & Sterling, Summer Associates
Since our initial call for information about summer associate offer rates at major law firms, a number of people have contacted us with reports. As it turns out, there’s a lot of good news floating around out there for summer associates. 100% offer rates abound. Let’s round them up….
Tags: Biglaw, Chadbourne & Parke, Cold Offers, Dechert, Gibson Dunn, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Job Searches, Jones Day, K&L Gates, Katten Muchin Rosenman, Latham & Watkins, No Offers, O'Melveny & Myers, Offer Rates, Paul Hastings, Proskauer Rose, Quinn Emanuel, Ropes & Gray, Schulte Roth & Zabel, Shearman & Sterling, Summer Associates, Weil Gotshal, White & Case
Welcome to our latest round-up of summer associate offer rate news. This post contains the latest list of law firms and offices with 100 percent offer rates. Time to pop the bubbly….
Tags: Biglaw, Chadbourne & Parke, Cold Offers, Dechert, Gibson Dunn, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Goodwin Procter, Hughes Hubbard & Reed, Jones Day, K&L Gates, Latham & Watkins, NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP), No Offers, O'Melveny & Myers, Offer Rates, Proskauer Rose, Ropes & Gray, Shearman & Sterling, Simpson Thacher, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, Summer Associates, Vinson & Elkins
Now that Labor Day is behind us, fall is fast approaching. You can tell by the chill in the evening air. Or is that just the cold offers we’re feeling? We recently heard a story about a pretty cold offer. This summer associate, who wasn’t the most popular person in her class, received a full-time employment offer “contingent upon obtaining a federal clerkship.” Given how hard it is to land a federal judicial clerkship, that’s a pretty cold offer. But wait, it gets better….
Tags: Biglaw, Blind Item, Clerks, Clerkships, Cold Offers, Federal Judges, Immigration, Law Clerks, Law Schools, No Offers, Summer Associates
Summer associate programs are winding down, and offer rate news is trickling in. What are we hearing?
Tags: Biglaw, Cold Offers, Job Searches, Milbank Tweed, Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy, No Offers, Offer Rates, Schulte Roth & Zabel, Summer Associates, Weil, Weil Gotshal, Weil Gotshal & Manges
Which firms are making job offers to 100 percent of their summer associates? A whole lot of them….
Tags: Alston & Bird, Biglaw, Cold Offers, Gibson Dunn, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Hogan Lovells, Job Searches, Kasowitz Benson, Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman, Kramer Levin, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, Latham, Latham & Watkins, Mayer Brown, Milbank Tweed, Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy, No Offers, Offer Rates, Schulte Roth & Zabel, Summer Associates, Weil, Weil Gotshal, Weil Gotshal & Manges, Willkie Farr, Willkie Farr & Gallagher
We’re hearing reports of stealth layoffs and no-offers for summer associates at Winston & Strawn. What are the numbers looking like?
Tags: Biglaw, Cold Offers, Jill Delaney, Layoffs, No Offers, Stealth Layoffs, Summer Associates, Winston & Strawn
We covered recent associate layoffs and summer associate no-offers at Winston & Strawn. Here’s some follow-up — including words in support of the firm.
Tags: Biglaw, Cold Offers, James Leipold, Jim Leipold, Layoffs, NALP, National Association for Law Placement (NALP), No Offers, Stealth Layoffs, Summer Associates, Thomas Fitzgerald, Thomas P. Fitzgerald, Tom Fitzgerald, Winston & Strawn
Which law firms issued offers to all of their summer associates?
Tags: Biglaw, Cold Offers, Fall Recruiting, Hogan Lovells, James C. Chadwick, James Chadwick, Jenner & Block, Jim Chadwick, Job Searches, Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins, Milbank, Milbank Tweed, Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy, No Offers, OCI, Offer Rates, On-Campus Interviewing, Patton Boggs, Recruiting, Summer Associates, Weil Gotshal, Weil Gotshal & Manges
Which major law firms issued offers to all of their associates? Here are more names.
Tags: Biglaw, Cold Offers, Debevoise, Debevoise & Plimpton, DLA Piper, Job Searches, Latham & Watkins, No Offers, Offer Rates, Schulte Roth & Zabel, Sheppard Mullin, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, Skadden, Skadden Arps, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP, Summer Associates, Wiley Rein, Wiley Rein LLP
What should you do if you get no-offered? Here are several strategies.
Tags: Advice, Biglaw, Career Advice, Cold Offers, Edelson LLC, Jay Edelson, Job Searches, No Offers, Offer Rates, Offers, Summer Associates, TLS, Top Law Schools