The Associate Pirate

The market’s march toward 18 weeks of paid maternity leave looks like it’s accelerating to a sprint, or at least a nice jog.
I’ve updated the maternity and paternity leave charts to reflect recent news at Dewey & LeBoeuf and WilmerHale, both of whom have moved to 18 weeks of paid maternity leave, as well as […]

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Kudos to Milbank Tweed for increasing their paid leave for primary caregivers to 18 weeks, and for reassuring associates that there won’t be layoffs at the firm. (A hat tip to David Lat for breaking the news.)
I just updated the running table of maternity leave policies here and on Above The Law.

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Kudos to Cooley Godward for growing yet again in Boston today. They just wooed Donald K. Stern, the former U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts, to join their Boston office. Considering the firm has been in Boston for less than a year, and is already up to 30 lawyers — including VC/start-up heavyweight John Hession as “Partner […]

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As Dan Slater puts it,
When the Law Blog heard last night that Bear Stearns, the deflated investment bank that was torn to pieces by the mortgage crisis, had
agreed to be sold to J.P. Morgan Chase for a measly two buck a share, a couple thoughts came to mind. The first was, “Argh, we should’ve pooled […]

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Just updated the clerkship bonus table to reflect new info at Ropes & Gray and Covington & Burling. Covington moved to $50K in DC (take that, Arnold & Porter!), but left the bonus at $35K in San Francisco. Covington already had a $50K bonus in NY, but interestingly the bonus for two years of clerking […]

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I posted some results from our clerkship bonus/hiring survey on Above The Law today.
As with the maternity leave table, I’ll be mirroring the table of clerkship bonuses here as well. (A hat tip to Law Clerk Addict for compiling the first exhaustive list of clerkship bonuses, which I’m now supplementing with survey results and tips […]

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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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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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