When top-ranked second-year law students and optimistic law firm recruiters began their annual summer intern courtship dance last fall, the global economy almost simultaneously began its rapid descent.
Taking cues from some of the market’s earlier warnings, many firms already had adjusted their class sizes downward from 2008. But when the associate layoffs gathered momentum about midway through the recruitment season, discomfort spread like a rash among the students.
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