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BigLaw: Beware the Summer Associate Program

By Marin Feldman

Originally published on April 13, 2009 in our free BigLaw newsletter. Picture it: New York, summer 2008. Summer associate programs remained orgies of expensive lunches, Broadway shows, and casino nights, but the economic tide had begun to turn. Unbeknownst to a group of summer associates at a certain large firm, the sword of Damocles was about to fall. Queen Bees of the Summer Associate Program By all accounts, there was a group of about ten partiers in the summer class. They showed up to the office on time, stayed late, and then went out late to bars after work. They were smart and they turned in solid work, but they were intent on having a hedonistic summer program like the ones they had heard so much about from their predecessors. You only "summer" once after all...continue to full post

Full post as published by TechnoLawyer Blog on April 20, 2009 (boomark / email).

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