My old firm Morgan Lewis laid off lots of people yesterday.
They're taking a novel approach to their incoming classes:
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Law firm Morgan Lewis & Bockius will not have a first-year class of lawyers starting in fall 2009 and has informed its incoming summer interns they will not receive full-time jobs until 2011. The firm announced this shortly after it announced it would be laying off 55 lawyers and 161 support staff Monday afternoon.
In a memo to 2009 summer interns, Philadelphia-based Morgan Lewis said it has decided to defer the start date for incoming entry-level lawyers until October 2010. Those first-year lawyers would normally start in October 2009 after graduating in May and taking the state bar exam.
The firm said it will offer each affected new associate the chance to work in a public interest organization for that year and will pay each a $5,000 monthly stipend. The firm could save $85,000 in salary per associate and possibly more if the firm does not offer benefits.
The firm could save $85,000 in salary per associate and possibly more if the firm does not offer benefits.
It all comes back to health care.
Sophia, at my school we had the option of wearing grey, navy, white, or the school plaid. [link]
My gut feeling is that a school with uniforms formal enough to require a jacket (which we weren't) would have them all the same color.
The firm said it will offer each affected new associate the chance to work in a public interest organization for that year and will pay each a $5,000 monthly stipend. The firm could save $85,000 in salary per associate and possibly more if the firm does not offer benefits.
Wow. That's kind of cool, really. But hard on the people expecting to be corporate attorneys, obviously!
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Sophie, I think grey would be an acceptable school jacket colour.
Sophia, I think that if there's a jacket to the uniform they'd be, um, uniform.
I think the uniform jackets come with the patches on them. However, I have seen patches in fabric stores (I think ... it's been a while). You could get something with a coat of arms kind of look that would probably do the job.
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Er...I should probably mention that the majority of my classmates at that school were spoiled brats and by senior year I was quite happy to have no real friends.
Er...I should probably mention that the majority of my classmates at that school were spoiled brats and by senior year I was quite happy to have no real friends.
But you're awesome! And if Em turns out to be even a smidge as awesome, WIN!
who'm I kidding? Like we could ever afford it. I'm getting depressed at the idea of schools after kindergarten.
Gray is pretty common, but stripes, not so much. You could get patches like these: [link]
