The maxim “good things come to those who wait” has proved true in the case of law firm associate deferrals, at least from the perspective of the overworked and understaffed public interest firms that benefited from their free labor.
As the Great Recession caused law firms to make significant changes to the way they hired and retained attorneys in 2008 and 2009, firms began deferring start dates for first-year associates. The firms paid those associates stipends during the deferral, often with the expectation that the would-be first-years would work for a public interest firm until the law firm was ready to bring them on board.
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