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Wednesday, August 06, 2008
Ind. Law - "Barnes & Thornburg is cutting its summer associate program next year in its Chicago office"
From a story by Lynne Marek in the National Law Journal:
Barnes & Thornburg, a 450-lawyer firm based in Indianapolis, is cutting its summer associate program next year in its Chicago office because first-year associates are so available in the city and competing firms have reduced the programs, the firm said.The firm typically has about two to three summer associates in the Chicago office with the typical offers for a first-year position in the fall of the following year after the law student finishes school. Lately, the firm has found it so easy to attract first-year associates in Chicago that weren't a part of its summer program that it decided it was needless effort to host the summer associates and then be forced to shoehorn hiring plans into the 18-month wait for new associates, said Jon Froemel, the firm's hiring partner for the Chicago office.
"We've hired successfully so many first-years that it seems, at least for next year, there wasn't a need," Froemel said.
The firm's partners also said they had heard other law firms were cutting back their summer programs, making Barnes & Thornburg's move a competitive response. They declined to name other firms making the reductions.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on August 6, 2008 02:20 PM
Posted to Indiana Law