Susie Paul – Jim Farmer QC is used to giving advice to tough commercial clients, but he also has some tough advice for those seeking law jobs in the COVID world we now inhabit.As we recently reported the law jobs situation is significantly more difficult now with the COVID crisis, but the best thing young […]
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Jennifer Bridges – Big Law firm Goodwin Procter is apparently implementing layoffs by stealth according to reports.The firm, which grosses over a billion dollars in revenues, is reportedly cutting associates, having already reduced staff numbers. Using ‘stealth tactics’, the firms can reduce employee numbers almost undercover where they avoid referring to cutbacks that relate to
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The coronavirus crisis has seen many law firms cancel their summer intern programs, but many firms are continuing to pay their associates as much as $3600 a month despite reducing their summer intern programs.The pandemic has created a range of reactions from law firms, which would normally see market leaders set the framework for matters
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Law firms are increasingly cutting salaries to get their way through what one law publication terms the ‘coronapocalypse’. The largest law firms in the world are chopping pay, bonuses and leave with the trend continuing even as many are seeing light at the end of the dark Corona tunnel.But some key questions about how firms
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You have no doubt heard the term Biglaw, but may not be able to place your finger on an exact definition. You are not alone in that.Biglaw is an industry-specific nickname for high-revenue law firms with large headcounts. It can also refer to smaller firms that pay their lawyers a market rate salary, or even
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The COVID-19 virus has shaken the world economy like a war – and indeed it is a war – and the law profession and law job searching will be equally changed by these events.So far as legal recruitment and law careers are concerned, the full effects of the COVID-19 virus are still far off. It
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Rhonda Martinez* Many students worry about how they are going to spend their time at a law firm as interns. They want to impress employers and prepare for recruiting. Getting a good job is the main point of education so you should make sure that employers will see you as a good candidate. Although your
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The annual Vault rankings are always keenly awaited and with 20,000 Associates ranking US law firms this year the rankings remain of keen interest. But which firms rank tops?The top ranking 10 US law firm as ranked by Vault follow – Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLPWith two centuries under its belt, Cravath, Swaine & Moore
Eve Cornwell is a trainee at Linklaters, London office and has released a much-watched, ‘unfiltered’ view of the Magic Circle firm’s office with a video view of everything in the firm’s London HQ – with the blessing of the firm, who want to lift the lid on working at Big Law, London.Everthing from the mail
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