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Employment Firms Chase Littler
Challengers are bulking up and moving onto the turf of the labor and employment powerhouse.For some firms, an extra step for the newest recruits
After three years of law school, a hundred grand of debt and weeks sweating out a bar review and exam, it's time to start practicing law in earnest, right? At a handful of firms, the answer is fast becoming "not yet." These firms are putting new recruits through additional apprenticeship programs that they say will better train their attorneys for life at a law firm and for handling clients.Carlton Fields Bulking Up Atlanta Office
Meredith [email protected] Greg [email protected] months after establishing an Atlanta office, Carlton Fields has hired its first batch of lawyers.Atlanta managing partner Wayne H. Shortridge, who had been the office's only lawyer, has recruited four partners and an associate to the Florida firm's local office.One city at a time, firms chase Littler
LAW FIRMS THAT SPECIALIZE in labor and employment work are aggressively adding lawyers and opening new offices across the country in an attempt to offer their specialized legal services on a national scale.In expanding their scope, the boutiques find themselves treading onto turf dominated for years by the nation's largest labor and employment firm, Littler Mendelson.Salaries for New Recruits Flatline
Bruce WilkinsonSpecial to the Daily ReportWhen it comes to what's ahead for starting associates' pay, C. Lash Harrison, managing partner of Ford Harrison, puts it succinctly: "We've had the leap. ... Now comes the creep."And "creep" may be overstating the outlook, according to a survey of Atlanta law firms.Lawyer's inspiration helps open elementary school in Cambodia
The National Law Journal speaks with Ford Harrison partner Kay L. Wolf about her efforts to establish a school in Cambodia's poverty-stricken Prey Ven province.Pro bono program grooms one firm's next generation of partners
Since 2007, Ford & Harrison associates have had an opportunity to develop client management skills through the firm's pro bono partnership with Habitat for Humanity. "One of the most important parts of this partnership is that even though this work is pro bono, we're not treated as second-class citizens," said third-year associate Sarah Fuson. • Also, law firm personnel changes in our new Associate Movers column.Trending Stories
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