Law students who spent the summer working as associates at some of the nation’s largest firms went into their jobs knowing the negative reputation that law firm life can have. They ended the season thinking that reputation isn’t deserved — at least not where they worked.
That’s one of the conclusions to be drawn from The American Lawyer’s annual summer associates survey, which polled 3,656 students at 138 law firms. Among the other main findings: This year’s summers were largely satisfied with the substantive quality of the work they were assigned, annoyed that they didn’t have job offers by the time they returned to school and — in a possibly shameless display of enthusiasm — eager to work for a longer stretch of the summer than the eight or 10 weeks that most firms’ programs typically run.
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