Forum (Forum & Focus)
Mar. 4, 2009
Nonprofits to Firms: Give Us Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Unemployed
A mind is a terrible thing to waste. So is a bright, potential-filled law firm associate.
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By Peter Scheer A mind is a terrible thing to waste. So is a highly skilled and expensively trained law firm associate. That is what major law firms across the country must be thinking as they hand out pink slips to very talented, but now underutilized, young lawyers: over 1,200 in just January and February of 2009 (according to the running tally on lawshucks.com), including 190 associates let go by L.A.'s Latham & Watkins...
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