Law Practice
Apr. 30, 2009
New Lawyers Are Asking, 'What's Next?'
After an unprecedented restructuring of law firm ranks in recent months, hundreds of bright young attorneys have been left to grapple in a lean job market with little experience to offer prospective employers and a mountain of law school debt.
Daily Journal Staff Writer As an associate at O'Melveny & Myers, Anthony Arnold tracked the legal blogs. He had read that Latham & Watkins laid off 440 people on a bleak Friday morning. So he was prepared on the following Tuesday in early March, when an O'Melveny representative broke the news to Arnold that he would be let go from the firm. Now out of a job, Arnold found himself faced with a question he had not expected ...
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