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Serious Q about Latham and peer firms

Have any of the 7-8 firms ahead of them in the Vault ranking...
Vigorous deranged gay wizard
  06/30/09
I don't know about all of latham's peer firms, but I underst...
Cracking mint menage trust fund
  06/30/09
OMM's did a lot too
passionate mustard school
  06/30/09
OMM may have laid off some first years. the rest haven't. ...
white coldplay fan affirmative action
  06/30/09
Hate to break it to ya, but Latham will probably be fine in ...
Brindle water buffalo
  07/01/09
in NY the other elite firms will pwn them. they're out of t...
chrome abode
  07/01/09
In NY, yeah. But in Cali it will always be a powerhouse.
Self-centered Milk Coffee Pot
  07/01/09
All firms are not equal. Three of these firms are all or vi...
lascivious ladyboy temple
  07/01/09


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Date: June 30th, 2009 11:46 PM
Author: Vigorous deranged gay wizard

Have any of the 7-8 firms ahead of them in the Vault rankings and Munger, Irell, Quinn, Gibson or OMM done all of the following:

Salary freezes

Layoffs

1st Year Layoffs

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1031152&forum_id=2#12129322)



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Date: June 30th, 2009 11:48 PM
Author: Cracking mint menage trust fund

I don't know about all of latham's peer firms, but I understand that chadborne reduced salaries and laid off a substantial number of people. I would have a difficult time choosing between the two firms, to be honest.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1031152&forum_id=2#12129331)



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Date: June 30th, 2009 11:49 PM
Author: passionate mustard school

OMM's did a lot too

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1031152&forum_id=2#12129334)



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Date: June 30th, 2009 11:49 PM
Author: white coldplay fan affirmative action

OMM may have laid off some first years. the rest haven't.

if you compare the NY office to its peers, none of them have.

LaTTTham = pwned in the long term. since you have the incident in the 90s and now this, people are connecting the dots and saying this is latham's mo. in the long term this will hurt recruiting, hurt the work product, and hurt the bottom line. not to mention the 400 angry attorneys they've injected into the market, + the sympathizers. this was a very dumb move on latham's part if you look at the long term because their peers didn't follow. they should've just bitten the bullet and ridden it out like the other top firms. then again, if they were well managed, they wouldn't have been in such bad shape in the first place. arguably, the ny office was poorly diversified compared to other ny firms.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1031152&forum_id=2#12129335)



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Date: July 1st, 2009 12:26 AM
Author: Brindle water buffalo

Hate to break it to ya, but Latham will probably be fine in the long run. So long as the big name partners remain at the firm and clients continue to hire them, the firm can continue to boast about their practice areas, offer high salaries, and slowly buy back into the ambitious law student's naive quest for prestige.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1031152&forum_id=2#12129618)



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Date: July 1st, 2009 12:49 AM
Author: chrome abode

in NY the other elite firms will pwn them. they're out of the running.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1031152&forum_id=2#12129811)



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Date: July 1st, 2009 1:05 AM
Author: Self-centered Milk Coffee Pot

In NY, yeah. But in Cali it will always be a powerhouse.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1031152&forum_id=2#12129967)



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Date: July 1st, 2009 1:03 AM
Author: lascivious ladyboy temple

All firms are not equal. Three of these firms are all or virtually all litigation, which wasn't hit nearly as hard as corporate. You'd be a fool to assume these firms won't screw associates when they encounter bad times. Hell, Quinn Emanuel laid people off and slashed bonuses when they hit record profits.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1031152&forum_id=2#12129946)