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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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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It took me a bit longer than usual to get out a post on ATL today. Interviewing scheduling and prep is afoot, and I was momentarily incapacitated by Dave Lat’s brilliant post about his Facebook woes.
But since the post features a running table of paternity leave, I’m mirroring that bit of it here:
Paid Paternity Leave […]

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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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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 […]

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