Associate Job Uncertainty, What's 'Essential'? Another Partner Out at Freshfields: The Morning Minute
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March 24, 2020 at 06:00 AM
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WHAT WE'RE WATCHING
UNFORESEEN – Uncertainty abounds in the associate hiring market due to COVID-19. As Karen Sloan reports, Columbia Law has told its students that summer associate interviews will be delayed until January, in part because schools have switched to pass/fail grades for the spring. Other schools are expected to announce similar delays. At the same time, legal education professionals are mulling the cancellation or delay of the July bar exam. What's more, the chances of this summer's associate programs proceeding as usual look increasingly slim.
ESSENTIAL? As more states proceed with unprecedented stay-at-home orders, including the closing of nonessential businesses, lawyers are struggling with the definition of what's essential and nonessential as they guide their companies to comply. Sue Reisinger reports that definitions can vary from state to state, and even city to city. Some states and cities have adopted the 16 critical infrastructure sectors announced March 19 by the federal government, but many also have added their own categories.
BEHIND BARS - Prosecutors want a federal judge in New York to deny Michael Cohen's request to serve out the remainder of his three-year prison sentence from home amid the deepening coronavirus outbreak. Cohen's attorney Roger Bennet Adler argues that New York's Bureau of Prisons is "demonstrably incapable of safeguarding and treating" prisoners housed in close quarters, Tom McParland reports. Federal prosecutors assert that the former personal lawyer for President Trump is at no more risk than his fellow inmates.
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EDITOR'S PICKS
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WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING
OUT – Another partner at U.K.-based Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has left the law firm following an internal investigation. Rose Walker and Krishnan Nair report that London-based Tom Snelling, a litigation partner of 10 years, left last week after an internal investigation. Two other partners have left the firm within the last six months amid sexual misconduct allegations.
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