It’s been an awful week for deferred associates. First, I blogged about how McDermott Will dropped three deferred associates into the lowly ranks of discovery lawyers. Then, just a day ago, I blogged about the apprentice programs that replaced the traditional first-year associate positions at Howrey, Drinker Biddle, and Frost Brown.
I was pretty hard on those programs, because they seemed like bait-and-switch routines. But those programs now look kind and compassionate — compared to what has happened to the remaining deferred associates at Baker & McKenzie.
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