Good News & Bad for Hogan Summers: You Have an Offer for 2011

There's good news and bad news for some summer associates at Hogan & Hartson.

After word earlier this month that the firm is letting go 30 senior associates, Hogan & Hartson plans to make more offers than it might have otherwise to summer associates in the firm's Washington, D.C., and Northern Virginia offices, according to an internal e-mail excerpted by Above the Law.

However, the bad news is that those offers will be to start work as associates in 2011 rather than 2010 for those who are graduating from law school that year. And that may not be all: "U.S. offices other than D.C. and Northern Virginia similarly have assessed their needs for 2010 and 2011 and have made, or will be making, deferral decisions particular to those offices' requirements," the e-mail states.

The published portion of the memo doesn't say whether these offerees can expect a $75,000 paid vacation like some other incoming Hogan & Hartson associates who were asked to defer their start date from 2009 to 2010.

The firm declined comment to Above the Law.