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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.
ASSOCIATE MOVERS
New associates at Nelson Mullins, Ruden McClosky and Proskauer Rose.
ASSOCIATE MOVERS
New arrivals at Thompson & Knight and Tripp Scott in this week's column.
ASSOCIATE MOVERS
New arrivals at Eckert Seamans, Jackson Lewis and Ober Kaler.
Arent Fox rescinds offers for some deferred associates
Arent Fox Chairman Marc Fleischaker has confirmed reports that the firm has rescinded offers made to some of its deferred associates. To "soften the blow," the firm is giving those who have their offers rescinded a $20,000 stipend. "There is no legal obligation to do that, but we felt it was a moral obligation," he said.
Being a good associate is not enough
Treating yourself as just an employee won't get you far, says Robert Bohn, a senior associate in the government contracts practice group in McKenna Long & Aldridge's Los Angeles office. To give himself a foot up at the firm, Bohn has been developed a hybrid corporate transactional practice focused primarily on government contract-specific due diligence within the defense and aerospace industry.
ASSOCIATE MOVERS
New associates at Curtis Mallet-Prevost, Nixon Peabody and Perkins Coie.
ASSOCIATE MOVERS
New arrivals at Balnk Rome, Conyers Dill and Troutman Sanders.
Latest Sonnenschein layoffs cut partners too
In its most recent round of reductions, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal has cut about 30 lawyers this month, including 10 income partners, mostly in the firm's real estate and corporate practices areas. This is the third round of dismissals for Sonnenschein in the past 18 months.
ASSOCIATE MOVERS
New arrivals at Gunster Yoakley and associate distinctions at Kramer Levin.
Layoff freed youthful associate to begin political career
Getting laid off from her firm job less than a year after graduating with her J.D. was not the start to a budding law career that Jenna Persons had envisioned. However, it did present the 26-year-old with the opportunity to pursue public office — something she has long been interested in but didn't think would be realistic until later in life. Persons is running for mayor of Fort Myers, Fla.
ASSOCIATE MOVERS
New arrivals at Hanify & King and Krokidas & Bluestein in Boston and Wilmington, Del.'s Morris Nichols.
ASSOCIATE MOVERS
Bryan Cave promotes nine associates to counsel.
ASSOCIATE MOVERS
Associate distinctions and new arrivals at Hinshaw & Culbertson and Duane Morris.
ASSOCIATE MOVERS
Associate distinctions and promotions to partner at Davis Polk and Wilson Elser.
