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Happy Monday! Enjoy these law links: Miles & Stockbridge keeps its associates informed about firm finances. Fired Public Defender Nancy Forster was “totally selfless, devoted, and delightful” when Jon Katz […]
What is Miles doing right?
Once again, Miles & Stockbridge scored high in the American Lawyer’s survey of midlevel associate satisfaction. Last year, the firm placed second; this year, it’s fifth. As a whole, though, […]
DLA Piper to start 2009 summers in 2011 or 2012
Above the Law is reporting that DLA Piper will be inviting the 2009 summer associates who get job offers to come on board in January of 2011 rather than September […]
New lawyers’ pay still polarized
NALP has done a survey of lawyer starting salaries and has discovered that the median salary for new lawyers in 2008 was $72,000 and the mean was $92,000. This tells […]
Venable cuts salaries across the board
It was only a matter of time. Our 2009 incoming associate salary chart showed earlier this month that Venable was still planning on paying the current crop of incoming associates–well, […]
DLA Piper cuts associate salaries
Above the Law has a leaked memo from DLA Piper saying that the firm is cutting first-year associate salaries. DLA Piper confirms. Last year, the firm’s number was $160,000 in […]
Law-firm layoffs: Should you be afraid?
From the American Lawyer by way of Texas Lawyer comes this short piece on how firms decide which associates to lay off. It’s worth a read, though there’s nothing earth-shattering. […]
Breathe easy, ex-Gov. Ehrlich
Womble Carlyle laid off a bunch of people yesterday, but relax: ex-Gov. Bob Ehrlich was not among them. First of all, the fired employees appear to have been associates and […]
Hogan knocks back associate billables
Just a couple of years ago, big-firm associates would have rejoiced at the news of a cut in their minimum billable hour requirement. In my reporting on the business of […]
