The Associate Pirate
"Arr is for resumé!" This blawg discusses the legal market from a recruiter's perspective.
Author: Justin Bernold is a director of Boston-based Lateral Link.
Blawg Related Categories: Careers • Lawyer Pay • Work/Life Balance • Law Firms • Associates • Consultant
Recent Posts from The Associate Pirate
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More updates on parental leave and clerkship bonuses.
The market’s march toward 18 weeks of paid maternity leave looks like it’s accelerating to a sprint, or at least a nice jog. I’ve updated the maternity and paternity leave charts to reflect recent news…
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Maternity leave update.
Kudos to Milbank Tweed for increasing their paid leave for primary caregivers to 18 weeks, and for reassuring associates that there won’t be layoffs at the firm. (A hat tip to David Lat for breaking…
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Interesting lateral moves
Kudos to Cooley Godward for growing yet again in Boston today. They just wooed Donald K. Stern, the former U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts, to join their Boston office. Considering the firm has been in Boston…
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The lawyers behind last night’s Bear Stearns deal.
As Dan Slater puts it, When the Law Blog heard last night that Bear Stearns, the deflated investment bank that was torn to pieces by the mortgage crisis, had agreed to be sold to J.P.…
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A quick clerkship bonus update.
Just updated the clerkship bonus table to reflect new info at Ropes & Gray and Covington & Burling. Covington moved to $50K in DC (take that, Arnold & Porter!), but left the bonus at $35K…
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Politicians and their sweeties.
What with all the news about politicos and mala prohibita these days, this story might be a sign that we’ve jumped the shark: an eighth-grade honors student in Connecticut was suspended, and stripped of his…
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Paternity Leave
It took me a bit longer than usual to get out a post on ATL today. Interviewing scheduling and prep is afoot, and I was momentarily incapacitated by Dave Lat’s brilliant post about his Facebook…
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My mom will be so proud . . . of Dave Lat
Legal Blog Watch just posted about my post on ATL today: If you’re trying to figure out which practice areas are hot, why not go to the source: the law firm associates who work in…
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Clerkship bonuses
I posted some results from our clerkship bonus/hiring survey on Above The Law today. As with the maternity leave table, I’ll be mirroring the table of clerkship bonuses here as well. (A hat tip to…
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Recommended Reading
Ben Heineman Jr. and David Wilkins have a thoughtful article on Law.com today, about associate attrition and retention. In addition to some suggestions about training and development, they have a couple of practice pointers: To…