Summer Associates: Less Big-Scale Entertaining
am 27.05.2006 von Jurabilis
All play and no work. Thats the common conception of summer-associate programs at the nations biggest law firms. For about three months, the thinking goes, the firms bestow upon an anointed crop of law students a taste of the good life. They lunch at the citys best restaurants, move from one open bar tab to the next and take in baseball games from the firms box seats. When theyre not too busy with their sushi-making classes and scavenger hunts, they do a few research memos. At summers end, the vast majority get lucrative offers for permanent employment.
A year later, the grind begins.
Some parts of …
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