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...Then the economic crisis set in, and as legal work across the country has dried up, many large and mid-sized firms have turned to a surprising cost-cutting strategy: paying incoming first-year associates - whose starting annual salaries at Manhattan firms is $160,000 - not to show up. So far this year, Marshall and hundreds of other third-year law students at prestigious schools have seen their job start dates pushed back anywhere from just a few months to a full year, leaving those affected scrambling to find other options to fill the time off. "To get my stipend...
...never materialize - nearly 5,000 veteran attorneys have been laid-off since last September, according to industry website Lawshucks.com. "I'd love to take the money and go backpack around Thailand," says David Kirchblum, who graduates from Boston College's law school next week and had the start date for his job at New York firm Milbank Tweed pushed back to January 2010. "But if I suddenly have to find a new position, that gap is going to be difficult to explain...
...Some firms are forcing deferrals on incoming associates while others are taking a choose-your-own-adventure approach. Stroock & Stroock & Lavan in New York has offered incoming associates three options: start in January 2010 and get a $10,000 stipend, start in January 2011 and get $50,000 or agree not to come at all and get $75,000. Which sounds great until you remember that finding another firm job or any post-graduate work at all at this point will be next to impossible in this economy. (See 10 ways your job will change in the future...
...infection among drug addicts in New York City have found that new infection rates dropped more than 75% after city and community activists expanded clean-needle programs, beginning in the early 1990s, and later legalized possession of needles. Likewise, needle-exchange programs in other cities, including - after a rocky start - Montreal and Vancouver, had similarly significant impact. So, why has the federal funding ban on these programs, enacted by Congress in 1988, remained intact for two decades...
...starkly different responses of some U.S. bishops and the Vatican could just be a matter of pure politics. As Obama's European tour last month showed, the Pope would hardly be the only head of state eager to start off on the right footing with the new Administration. In addition, Obama is broadly popular among American Catholics, 67% of whom gave him a positive approval rating in a recent Pew poll. At a time when the U.S. Catholic Church is losing members - a separate Pew study found that for every American who joins the Catholic Church, four others leave - Benedict...