Brittany Lopez: WestlawNext Experience

A Litigation Associate at Reinhart, Boerner, & Ven Deuren, Brittany Lopez shares her experience using WestlawNext.

Different classes of associates?

Law Firms and the "Two Tier System" for Associates - Betsy McKenzie posted on the Out of the Jungle blog about the firms now having a two tiered associate structure. One is the traditional tier, the other a permanent associate (non-partner track) tier with less pay, more mundane tasks, but fewer hours and lowered billing requirements.

Two tiers of associates?

From The Recorder:

Is Adding a Second Tier for Law Firm Associates a Good Thing?

Justin Miller
The Recorder
July 19, 2010

With revenues down and collection times up, the number of law firms that are starting to consider the benefits of a two-tiered approach to associate attorneys is growing rapidly. Firms are finding that a two-tiered associate structure can be an efficient profit model in that the second tier of "nonpartnership track associates" are paid sometimes as much as 50 percent less than the first tier of "traditional associates," but may be billed to clients with rates that are only 25 to 30 percent less than those of the traditional associates. In other words, if a nonpartnership track associate bills 1,800 hours, the firm makes a larger profit and the clients pay less money than if a traditional associate were to bill the same number of hours. (cont)

Where were you in '62**

Thank you to Laura Justiss for this blast from the past:

Check out the Beloit College website for the mindset of this year's entering college students, the class of 2012. http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/2012.php

The site also has Beloit's lists going back to the college classes of 2002 to 2011. It's fun trivia as we look at the college classes of 2004 and 2005 heading into the firms any day.

**With apologies to American Graffiti

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