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I hate to be one of those people who complains about something most people think is amazing.
Living in Califonia has a lot of perks. But right now, it also kind of sucks. All I have to do is read Cal Law reporter Cheryl's tweets about state budget hijinx (if you can call them that), and I start feeling down on the homeland. And today brings news that just makes it worse for California young lawyers.
Via Above the Law, we have news that Milbank has shut down its 2010 summer program in Los Angeles. The program that has historically had about 10 participants each summer (according to ATL). It does not appear that the firm will be closing the doors on summer classes in any other cities. We've updated our 2010 deferral/summer program cancelation chart to reflect this firm's news.
In San Francisco and Silicon Valley, our sister blog Legal Pad brings news that Quinn Emanuel has deferred eight of its 2009 first years (yes, you read right) to January, 2010. That must've been a really nice present to get not even a week before the bar exam. Quinn Emanuel has cited insufficient work as cause for deferring the associates. Also a nice present for the ones who didn't get deferred $#151; is this just round one?
Quinn admits this is a shitty move.
“We should have made the decision sooner--we were hoping that the issue would go away,” [firm chariman John] Quinn wrote. Ok, this wasn't a great excuse when I neglected to dump my gross college boyfriend for six months, and it doesn't work here, either.
Well, at least the deferrees might get some money to go drinkin with after the bar, right? Not so fast.
"We will start paying them when they start work.”
Well! Being a Californian right now isn't so totally awesome, see? To quote Mark Leibovich in his NYTimes story "Who Can Govern California?"
"Calamity is just part of the equation here, as if God gave California so much glamour and grandeur and great weather that he had to throw in some apocalyptic menace to provide a little balance."
"We were hoping the problem would go away"? Since when did everyone just give up and start sticking their heads in the sand? That's ridiculous.
Posted by: Joe | July 27, 2009 at 08:00 AM
Quinn wrote. Ok, this wasn't a great excuse when I neglected to dump my gross college boyfriend for six months, and it doesn't work here, either.
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