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ASSOCIATE MOVERS
Associate promotions to partner at Miami's Bilzin Sumberg and Columbia, S.C.'s Nelson Mullins.
ASSOCIATE MOVERS
New associates and promotions to partner at Wilmington, Del.'s Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz.
ASSOCIATE MOVERS
Promotions to partner at Jenner & Block.
Summer associate offers hits 17-year low
Third-year law students have been lamenting the unfortunate timing of their entry into the job market. Now they have some cold, hard numbers to quantify their woes. The median number of offers by U.S. law firms for 2010 summer associate positions was seven, according to NALP statistics. That's down from 10 offers in 2008 and 15 offers in 2007.
ASSOCIATE MOVERS
Associate promotions to partner at Davis Wright Tremaine and Sedgwick Detert Moran & Arnold; new associates at Morris, Manning & Martin.
ASSOCIATE MOVERS
Associates promoted to partner at Baker & Daniels and Nelson Mullins.
Seyfarth Shaw plans to link merit pay and billing rates for associates
Seyfarth Shaw rolled out more details Wednesday on how its new merit-based compensation system for associates will work. The new merit levels will be the basis for how much the firm charges clients for associates' legal services, the firm said.
ASSOCIATE MOVERS
New partners at Dykema Gossett, Hollingsworth, McManis Faulkner, Paul Weiss, Sutherland Asbill, and Wilson Elser.
ASSOCIATE MOVERS
Associate recently promoted at Babst Calland; Fitzpatrick Cella; Nelson Mullins; and Schulte Roth.
ASSOCIATE MOVERS
New partners at Cooley Godward; new associates at McGlinchey Stafford and Warner Norcross & Judd; and the first recipient of Proskauer's Diversity Scholarship.
ASSOCIATE MOVERS
New partners at Eckert Seamans; partner promotions at Pietragallo Gordon and Wilson Sonsini; and new associates at Arnstein & Lehr, Babst Calland, McGlinchey Stafford, and Wilcox & Savage.
Six tips for an effective job search
Large firm lawyers have much to offer potential employers. But they may have one distinct, if otherwise enviable, disadvantage in the job market: they may never have had to look for a job previously. Legal recruiter Kate Neville offers advice to lawyers looking to enter the job search.
Slight boost seen in number of part-time attorneys
The percentage of attorneys working part time ticked up slightly in 2009, despite fears that the unstable economy would prompt fewer people to seek reduced-hours schedules.
ASSOCIATE MOVERS
New associates at Frost Brown Todd, Much Shelist, Pirkey Barber, and Snell & Wilmer.
Hope for a silver lining
The current legal market offers attorneys an opportunity to figure out what they want to do outside of a big firm.
ASSOCIATE MOVERS
New associates at Blank Rome; Horvitz & Levy; Pryor Cashman; and Thompson & Knight.
New approaches to law firm recruitment
There may be a silver lining to the catastrophic year endured by the legal industry: the financial turmoil may herald changes in the law firm recruitment process that could eventually work a fundamental restructuring of employment in the profession.
ASSOCIATE MOVERS
New associates at Cozen O'Connor, Nelson Mullins, and Winstead.
ASSOCIATE MOVERS
Associate honors at Gunster Yoakley and Vorys Sater.
