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From the August 2009 Issue

ASSOCIATES SURVEY 2009

Video: After the Layoffs

Navigating the Job Market in the New Legal Landscape
Third year corporate associate Lynne Zagami (pictured here) was laid off from Brown Rudnick in November and has been searching for a job ever since. We recently talked to her about how she felt when she got the bad news, what her job search has been like, and how she stays positive.
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Who’s Hiring Associates?
The U.S. Department of Labor said the number of unemployed lawyers jumped 66 percent last year, to a total of 20,000. In the first three months of this year, more than 3,000 lawyers were laid off, and the majority of them were associates. Sheri Michaels from Major, Lindsey, & Africa gives associates tips on how to stay marketable in these tough times.
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CANADA REPORT

Senior reporter Julie Triedman looks at how Canadian plaintiffs lawyers have joined the class action game in this month’s feature, New Players at the Table.

In the Web feature Canadian Class Actions Take Off, Triedman interviews plaintiffs lawyer Andrew Morganti about his move in April from plaintiffs firm Milberg to Ontario-based Sutts Strosberg.
Morganti is working with firm founder Harvey Strosberg and the firm’s institutional and commercial clients in evaluating potential parallel class actions.
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From the June 2009 Issue


BAR TALK – Glory Days

The Feds was a little-known but dominating squad out of the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan in the late 1970s. Because then-U.S. Attorney Robert Fiske, Jr., made hiring female prosecutors a priority, by 1977 there were enough women to field a team – albeit a relatively petite but very determined roster. The team, pictured here, played for six seasons in the women’s division of the Lawyers Athletic League.

Click here for a series of play-by-play intradepartmental memos written by Federal judge Richard Leon, who was working in the U.S. attorney’s office at the time.


FEATURES – Women in Law Firms

The mean proportion of women at large firms today remains close to one-third–45 percent of nonpartners and 19 percent of partners, as the results of The American Lawyer’s first Women in Law Firms study finds. It’s a respectable but not dramatic increase over the numbers recorded by our sibling publication The National Law Journal in past NLJ 250 surveys.

But it turns out, The Am Law 200′s Second Hundred is a much more hospitable place for women with their eye on partnership, as Vivia Chen reports in a related Web Extra, Back Door to the Top. Of the nearly 180 firms of The Am Law 200 that submitted data on women and diversity this year to the study, almost 60 percent of the Am Law Second Hundred firms reported at least 19 percent women partners.

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LAWYERS LIVES - Balancing Act

Among the concerns brought on by the failing economy, a healthy work/life balance for lawyers ranks down at the bottom of the list. Gone are the days when firms needed to woo candidates with perks like a flexible career, writes contributor Denise Howell in this month’s Goodbye Economy, Hello Balance. Steady work and steady pay are the currency of the moment.

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