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The programs themselves, with trips abroad and lavish entertaining, could seem more like summer enrichment for precocious college students than real employment. Mozal said there has been some entertaining, but the big event so far has been a night at a Phillies game. Jennifer Wallace, a summer associate at Duane Morris L.
Even so, Wallace, a second-year student at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, received multiple offers. Law firms such as Reed Smith not only have reduced the sizes of their summer classes, they have cut compensation, eliminated some extracurricular activities, and shortened the programs to save money in a tough market.
Reed Smith, like other big firms, had pegged summer associates' salaries to those of first-year lawyers. James Lawlor, a Reed Smith partner who recruits and hires summer associates, said the firm has been doing less entertaining of summer associates, and when it does, it is more likely to schedule events at the firm's Center City offices rather than at costly restaurants.
Since summer programs serve as pipelines for new hires, the cancellation of programs at Ballard and Morgan Lewis this year had a practical purpose beyond slimming down the number of new lawyers. Both firms, like many around the nation, had deferred the start dates for lawyers graduating in and by one year.
Had they proceeded with plans for a summer program this year for lawyers who normally would have started in , the firms would have faced a large wave of new arrivals. Kahn, a Ballard Spahr partner specializing in commercial litigation and white-collar defense who oversees hiring and recruitment at the firm. The de-emphasis of internships in Philadelphia tracks national trends. The National Association for Law Placement, a trade association that focuses on the training and recruitment of lawyers, said that for all law firms, the median number of summer-associate positions offered this year had dropped to seven from 10 last year and 15 in
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