"Summer Law Associates Get Down to Business

by: Ashby Jones

source: CareerJournal

published : June 05, 2006

All play and no work. That's the common conception of summer-associate programs at the nation's 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 city's best restaurants, move from one open bar tab to the next and take in baseball games from the firm's box seats. When they're not too busy with their sushi-making classes and scavenger hunts, they do a few research memos. At summer's end, the vast majority get lucrative offers for permanent employment.

A year later, the grind begins."

Read the rest of the article, you unbelieving skeptics:

http://www.marketingpower.com/content40581.php

Regarding the offer, this associateship doesn't have offers, since it's afer the first year of law school, and at a bank, which doesn't hire lawyers right out of law school.

Regarding the money, I completely agree -- it's not THAT much. But so many people think it's SO MUCH MONEY that there's no way anyone would pay a summer "intern" that much money. So i'm trying to figure out why that's so hard to believe, and maybe it's because people really are jealous that a youngin with little real experience like me is paid absurd amounts. I really have no idea.

And for the record, since i work at a bank, and not a law firm, i don't make $2400, I make what banking associates get.

Yeah Felix, I have a job. I'm a priest. That's how I know that God is angry with fat people.

Do you have a direct line to god? :)

It's nutty to think you can't get healthy food at Kroger. It;s nutty, to, to assume that Kroger is my only source of food. Where I live we have a vibrant farmer's market and wonderful co-op grocery. I didn't realize that I should fess up every detail of my life to escape LeCastor's wrath. I didn't "go on and on" about how healthy I am. I exercise and eat right. Good health is that simple. You can even eat healthy at Wendy's.

Well, that's a change of pace. Just a little while ago you were telling us how you've never even THOUGHT about eating at Wendy's, and how [only] overweight people order from Pizza Hut. I just think it's strange to condemn fat people and talk about how unbelievably healthy your lifestyle is, and then talk trash about Whole Foods, just because it's "elitist" or "snobbish." To take such a holier-than-thou attitude against fat people takes some confidence, since I imagine it's always possible to be healthier -- do you eat organic? do you eat rBGH & GM foods? Trans fat? high fructose corn syrup? pesticides? partially hydrogenated oils? etc.

Plus, if you live on the island of manhattan and you want to get something akin to farmers' market quality, you either have to trek to somewhere random for an actual farmers' market, or you simply MUST shop at "snobby" stores like Whole Foods.

No, LeCastor

No, LeCastor, I said I like pizza, but I would never order a Meat Lovers Pan. I said I would never eat a triple from wendy's. I enjoyed a plain baked potato and a salad when I have eaten there. Don't project your self-loathing onto me.

-- thinner

PermalinkThursday, August 10, 2006 12:16:43 PM

Well, fair enough then. But i don't really have any self-loathing. I don't know why you would mention that, unless you wanted to project some of yours onto me. :)

and another thing

I didn't play the Whole Foods is crap card either. Others have, but i couldn't care less. For someone who posts so much, you aren't a very reliable reader--is it just that you really only want others to read what you have written?

I'm not a priest, goon ball--but I can speak for God and he's really got something great planned for you later today after you made that crack about priests.

-- thinner

Ooooh, i'm shaking in my cube.

1) Drudgereport.com reports that the arrested people are of Pakistani descent. But we're spending hundreds of billions on Iraq and Afghanistan, and picking a fight with Syria and Iran. How strange.

2) Bush now is using the nonsensical term "islamic fascists" in his speeches. I think it's a sign of desperation.

I think the Dems should totally politicize this -- it's so easy to turn it against Bush.