Delving further into the mind of the lawyer who hoped to sell his degree for “$59,250 or best offer”…
Ringing round backpacking hostels tring to get corporate associates back to work is no mean feat…
We’re not suggesting this tactic will work…
The graduate recruitment doors have reopened and associates are getting a shiny new bonus scheme…
So say in-house lawyers looking for fresh talent…
Freshfield NQs and associates will be delighted at the news but will others be lucky enough to join them any time soon?
If partnership is your goal then it just got even harder…
Of the month? Hell it’s only February but the year…?
Any associates reading that headline might not think it’s a great revelation but there’s exploited and there’s exploited…
Do you see yourself as a document bitch? No? They might…
So their new bonus scheme was scrapped before salaried partners went home and fetched their Winchesters…
So much for proposed ‘merit based’ approaches to appraisals; forget the box-ticking and pump up the billables…
It’s cheaper, its popular and it doesn’t look good for junior associates or current law students in the UK or the US.
We’ve heard of lawyers moonlighting as cab drivers and bar workers but here’s a new one.
In a ‘career alternatives for attorneys’ post ATL has interviewed a BigLaw associate on her secret life as a swinger sex promoter for her “School of Sex”…
It has emerged that US firm Mayer Brown is axeing a number of lawyers in the City.
Some lucky US associates will be enjoying an unexpected extension to their Christmas break; others might be facing a less prosperous new year…
If there were any wannabee lawyers or junior lawyers that were labouring under the illusion that 2010 was going to a cracker compared to the turmoil of 2008 and 09, bear this in mind.
Herbies may have a problem in Paris. The firm is being targeted for an action before the Paris Criminal Court for allegedly illegally employing an associate reports the Lawyer:
The action is being brought by sole practitioner and member of the Syndicat des Avocats de France (SAF) Avi Bitton on behalf of a former Herbert Smith associate who was dismissed earlier this year.
The associate was hired in 2006 under a self-employment contract, but claims that since she was required to …
Last week Roll on Friday reported that a Freshfields’ associate collapsed and was subsequently hospitalised after falling down some stairs at home. The incident apparently followed a massive slog at the office – according to the report she racked up several all nighters in the previous month and put in between 300 and 400 recorded hours at the grindstone.
Although the precise details leading up to the incident were unconfirmed, it has now emerged that a partner at Freshfields is …
Good news at the lower end of the profession. Proving it’s not all redundancies and pay freezes for junior lawyers, Legally India reported on Monday that Clifford Chance hired two lawyers from its Gurgaon-based legal support centre as associates. One is headed for the Abu Dhabi capital markets team and the other will join the London banking team.
Meanwhile, Mayer Brown has promoted 14 associates to its partnership across its international network. Although any progression is good in this environment, …
