Law Practice
May 8, 2009
Help Wanted
Erwin Chemerinsky implores employed lawyers to help their colleagues who have been laid off because of the economic downturn.
Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law
Erwin's most recent book is "Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism." He is also the author of "Closing the Courthouse," (Yale University Press 2017).
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By Erwin Chemerinsky Not a week goes by that I do not get a call from a former student who has been laid off by his or her law firm. I have received such calls from first-year associates who graduated last spring, from second-year associates, from more senior associates in the fifth, sixth and seventh years of practice. Senior lawyers, too, are being laid off. On Tuesday, April 28, the Atlanta law firm of Kilpatrick Stockton anno...
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