Cadwalader Offers Document Review Jobs to Lawyers on Sabbatical

Earlier this month, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft announced that it was asking 34 of its lawyers to take a one-year sabbatical for "one-third of their current compensation and medical benefits." The firm had planned to place the lawyers with clients or public interest organizations.

Now the law firm is offering the lawyers a chance to come back to work on a document review project, Above the Law reports.

A firm spokesperson told the blog that Cadwalader has been helping the lawyers on sabbatical prepare resumés and find jobs. “We have alerted them to more than 60 job opportunities, helped to arrange more than 20 interviews, and are aware of three job offers,” the statement says.

“As part of our efforts to engage them at the firm when possible, we recently received a client request for assistance on an expanded document review project with tight deadlines. Rather than consider other staffing solutions as we might have in the past, we first offered these lawyers the opportunity to work on the matter.”

The statement did not say how much the lawyers would be paid.