The 204 attorneys featured in this, our 10th annual new-associates magazine, represent a 38.4 percent drop from 331 in last year’s edition — more than double last year’s 18.5 percent dip from 406 in 2007.
Yet, if the glass is about a third empty, it’s about two-thirds full, and that’s a hopeful sign that New Jersey firms by and large have been spared the calamities that befell large national firms since the recession hit in 2008. Some firms reduced their numbers of hires or deferred starting dates to defray costs, but hire they did.
