Staff attorney lay-offs continue, impacting contract attorneys

One refuge for many contract attorneys has been direct employment as a staff attorney at a number of firms that adopted the “staff attorney” model for document review and temporary work.

But as Above the Law has continued to report, one casualty of the economic recession could well be the position of staff attorney.  They have reported that Skadden and Covington have had major cuts to their staff attorney programs, and now Paul Weiss.  According to Above the Law apparently they need to cut all the staff attorneys “so they have some work for 80 or so first years that just started who are already doing nothing but doc review and who should expect to be doing nothing but doc review for the foreseeable future”.

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