2011 Is Looking Better for Summer Associates
Some large law firms are planning to step up their hiring of summer associates for 2011 after a year of cutbacks.
The Am Law Daily talked to sources, some of them anonymous, at a handful of firms and learned they are planning to increase their summer associate classes. Although the numbers won’t reach the high levels of 2009, “even modest jumps are what pass for good news these days,” the story says.
The Am Law Daily identifies these firms as planning increases:
• Cravath Swaine & Moore, planning to hire about 75 summer associates for 2011, compared to 23 this year.
• Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, planning to hire about 100 summer associates, or possibly a little more, compared to 79 this year.
• Ropes & Gray, planning to hire more summer associates than this year’s 82, with the number probably reaching the triple digits.
• Jones Day, expecting to recruit more than the 124 summers hired for 2010.
