Law Students

Law Firm Leaders: Why Hire Summers When Laid-Off Lawyers Are Available?

Two leaders of Ohio law firms that cut their summer associate programs next year explain their decision in part with this sad fact: There is a lot of unemployed talent to choose from, if the need arises. The law firms—Roetzel & Andress and Brouse McDowell—are among four Ohio law firms…

Aug 28, 2009 1:30 PM CDT

Law Firms Delay Decisions on Job Offers to Summer Associates

Law firms are taking longer to make job offers this year, according to a career official at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law. Melissa Lennon, the school’s assistant dean for career planning, told the Legal Intelligencer that she is tracking about 20 law firms, but only four have made job…

Aug 28, 2009 12:33 PM CDT

Law Prof Recalls Ted Kennedy as Average on Paper, Good on His Feet

A law professor who had taught Ted Kennedy at the University of Virginia remembers him as better at oral advocacy than written tests. Law professor Mortimer Caplin taught both Ted Kennedy and his brother Robert, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports. Ted “was kind of an average paper student, but he was…

Aug 27, 2009 2:04 PM CDT

Greyacre Revisited: Free App Has Sample Bar Exam Questions

Law students studying for the bar exam can download a free app with sample questions for their iPhones. The “BARBRI Challenge” consists of a series of sample bar exam questions that must be answered in 15 minutes or less, according to a press release. Users can compete with others in…

Aug 27, 2009 1:06 PM CDT

A ‘Lost Year’ for 2Ls: About Half of BigLaw Jobs Are Gone

The timing couldn’t be worse for second-year law students. Large law firms are hiring about half as many summer associates as usual, resulting in “the most wrenching job search season in over 50 years,” the New York Times reports. For many second-year law students, the “golden ticket” to a high-paying…

Aug 26, 2009 2:46 PM CDT

News Flash to Law Students: If You Get a Summer Job Offer, Accept Now!

Amidst the worst legal market in the memory of many practicing attorneys, a Northwestern University School of Law career services official offers some advice to law students. Those lucky enough to land an offer for a summer associate job in 2010 at the beginning of the BigLaw on-campus interview season…

Aug 25, 2009 11:26 PM CDT

Howard Rice Sees Business Uptick, But Cancels 2010 Summer Program

Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin has canceled its 2010 summer associate program, despite an uptick in business. In a statement released to the ABA Journal, Howard Rice says it has seen a “substantial increase” in business over the last quarter. “However, the future is never certain, and we…

Aug 21, 2009 6:13 PM CDT

K&L Gates Chairman Says Fordham Dean Needs to Join the 21st Century

The chairman of K&L Gates is blasting Fordham’s law dean for his decision to ban Reed Smith from campus interviews for five years. “Someone should welcome the dean of Fordham Law School to the 21st century,” K&L Gates chairman and global managing partner Peter Kalis wrote the Pittsburgh Business Journal…

Aug 21, 2009 2:06 PM CDT

Yale Law Women Name Top 10 Family-Friendly Firms

Yale Law Women and Working Mother magazine don’t agree on the top family-friendly law firms. A top 10 list of family-friendly law firms released today by Yale Law Women includes four law firms that didn’t make a top 50 list of best law firms for moms published last week by…

Aug 20, 2009 3:15 PM CDT

One-Quarter of Paul Hastings’ Summer Associates Won’t Get an Offer

Early reports said only about half of Paul Hastings’ summer associates got job offers, but a firm spokeswoman says the news is better than that. About 70 percent to 75 percent of the summer associates will get offers, a spokeswoman told Above the Law. Last year, the firm extended offers…

Aug 19, 2009 2:54 PM CDT

McCarter & English Cancels 2010 Summer Program

One of New Jersey’s biggest law firm names has confirmed that it will be canceling its 2010 summer program. And McCarter & English will also be bumping back the start date for incoming first-year associates to Dec. 1, 2009, Eric Wiechmann tells Above the Law. He is the managing partner…

Aug 14, 2009 7:12 PM CDT

Actor Is a 1L at Southwestern Law School

Actor Jerry O’Connell has enrolled at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles, where at least one fellow student is posting Twitter accounts of the celebrity’s appearance at an orientation and a mixer. Southwestern’s assistant dean of public affairs, Leslie Steinberg, told Usmagazine.com that O’Connell chose the school because he is…

Aug 14, 2009 1:48 PM CDT

19-Year-Old to Attend Northwestern Law School

Updated: A 19-year-old woman who will be attending Northwestern Law School this year is used to the ribbing about being like Doogie Howser. Nineteen-year-old Kate McLaughlin skipped six grades as a child and graduated from the University of California San Diego at the age of 17, the Orange County Register…

Aug 10, 2009 3:58 PM CDT

Video Takeoff of Dancing 1L Imagines Divorce Court Boogie

There’s a new take on the YouTube video of a dance down the wedding aisle by a future law student and his wife. Future Hamline University 1L Kevin Heinz and his bride, Jill Peterson, became a YouTube sensation with a video showing their wedding procession to the song “Forever.” Now…

Aug 7, 2009 2:48 PM CDT

Day Pitney to Transform Summer Associates into Apprentices

Updated: Starting next year, Day Pitney will roll out a new “summer apprenticeship” program at its two largest offices that will emphasize on-the-job training. Apprentices in the firm’s offices in Hartford, Conn., and Florham Park, N.J., will shadow Day Pitney lawyers, work with legal teams handling client matters, participate in…

Aug 6, 2009 3:23 PM CDT