Fired on Friday from her plum position as an associate in the Moscow office of a major London-based law firm, Deidre Dare spent the weekend recuperating.
In one of the toughest job markets in decades, law graduates advised that a juris doctor degree would qualify them for a multiplicity of careers are finding that, even with…
Associates who were late entering billable time at Morgan Lewis & Bockius apparently got a reminder they won’t be able to ignore—in the form of lower bonus checks.
Now is the time to get started on summer work for law students interested in winning a post-graduation position as a law firm associate in what is expected to be…
The intellectual property law firm Fish & Richardson says it has fired 49 lawyers since November, and some of the dismissals were for financial reasons.
A Time magazine review of John Grisham’s latest legal thriller manages to praise and pan at the same time, marveling at how the author is able to deftly ensnare the…
Up to 120 associates and 150 support staffers in Linklaters’ London office are facing the prospect of lost jobs in a program reportedly dubbed Linklaters New World.
As news of new law firm layoffs and associate pay freezes seemingly breaks almost daily, worried third-year law students are anticipating rough landings into the post-graduate world of work.
While working as a fifth-year associate at a BigLaw firm in New York, Tracey Batt thought her black leather ankle boots, black leather trench coat and dark-colored “mannish” pantsuits with…
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