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BigLaw: The Case Against Today's Summer Associate Programs

By Marin Feldman

Originally published on April 19, 2010 in our free BigLaw newsletter. We perform certain rituals in life without questioning why or thinking about how they came about. Exhibit A — summer associate programs. From an outsider's perspective, summer programs seem nonsensical. Law firms hire untested law students and then shower them with cash and other perks for doing basically nothing. Over the past few years, firms have toned down summer programs from their gluttonous peak in the early 2000s, but it's time to change them wholesale … or perhaps even let them go. The Rationales for Summer Associate Programs Fail the Laugh Test Depending on who you believe, summer associate programs originated for one of two reasons. 1. Evaluation Law firms instituted summer programs to evaluate law students before they joined on a full-time basis...continue to full post

Full post as published by TechnoLawyer Blog on April 19, 2010 (boomark / email).

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