Robert Depew picked a bad time to switch from the practice of law to associate recruiting. In the year he recently spent working for Major, Lindsey & Africa, he made just one placement: himself. "The day I started was the day Lehman Brothers collapsed, and the fallout of that in the legal market was huge," he said. But a confluence of factors fell into place to aid Depew in going back into law practice, joining Wilson Sonsini's employment litigation group in October and making $210,000 as a fifth-year associate.
November 17, 2009 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Robert Depew picked a bad time to switch from the practice of law to associate recruiting. In the year he recently spent working for Major, Lindsey & Africa, he made just one placement: himself.
“The day I started was the day Lehman Brothers collapsed, and the fallout of that in the legal market was huge,” he said. Big-law associate jobs dried up. “We went to almost zero jobs open, and layoffs happening left and right.”
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