The Associate Pirate

Ben Heineman Jr. and David Wilkins have a thoughtful article on Law.com today, about associate attrition and retention.
In addition to some suggestions about training and development, they have a couple of practice pointers:
To give young lawyers real practice experience, firms can also expand their pro bono work to a broad range of clients (nonprofits […]

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Clerks in the Big Apple. Several firms in New York made same-day offers to judicial clerks this month. Another firm told me they wanted to make a same-day offer this week, but their department chair was out of the office.

‘40 Act Now, And We’ll Throw In This Special Bonus Offer! At least one firm in […]

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“We need 20 patent litigators.”“We’ll guarantee a minimum bonus.”“We have professional house hunters to help with relocations.”“We’ll guarantee his mortgage.”I kid you not.Between the patent litigation scene in the Bay Area (and just about everywhere else) and in-house jobs like this one, today would be a very good day indeed to be a lawyer with […]

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I posted about in-house jobs over at Above The Law today, so it’s a good time to post another “In-House Treasure” here at The Associate Pirate.
A software and technology company located in the Pacific Northwest is building an in-house patent team to prepare and prosecute portfolios for various business lines. These guys have solid revenues, […]

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My candidates rock so hard they make everybody else look like pebbles.
Same-day offers make me happy (and they also speak volumes about a firm, because it takes serious coordination and commitment to have paperwork ready before the candidate even leaves the building).
Congrats guys!

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I’ve been posting a running table of maternity leave policies on Above The Law based on survey reponses, comments and tips, and thought I’d mirror it here, just in case your browser is showing you the cached version on ATL instead of the most up-to-date. I’ll keep updating both here and there. Also, a […]

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Last week, I posted a survey on Above The Law about leave and part-time arrangements. (You can still take it here and see some preliminary results here.)
I’ll be getting deeper into the substance of the results here and there but, for now, here’s a chart of how responses broke down on paid maternity leave.
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Lateral Link sent out a newsletter yesterday, with some pretty interesting stats on my ATL surveys so far:
Over the last 6 weeks Lateral Link has run sixteen surveys on Above The Law, and we have received over 20,000 responses. Some of our most popular surveys focused on whether associates were making their hours, and what […]

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Wounded feet aside, I love it when my candidates get offers, too.
Congrats guys!

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