Survey Finds One-Third Drop in Summer Associate Offers
Law students recruited in the fall for 2009 summer associate positions are seeing a one-third drop in job offers, according to a recent survey by the National Association for Law Placement.
The median number of offers to current 2Ls for summer associate positions at firms of all sizes fell from 15 in the fall of 2007 to 10 in the fall of 2008, according to a NALP press release. At big law firms with 700 or more lawyers, the decline was even greater, falling from a median of 30 job offers in 2007 to 18.5 in 2008. The National Law Journal published a story on the findings.
While firms are getting stingier with offers, law students are getting less picky. The acceptance rate for summer associate positions stands at 32.5 percent, a 3 percent jump from 2007 and the highest rate recorded since 2002.
