Wake Up Call: Firms’ Summer Recruiting Shrank Amidst Covid

In today’s column, Cravath stayed atop Vault’s latest prestige rankings, based on associates’ evaluations of law firms; a troubled Florida for-profit law school is suing the U.S. Department of Education; the Biden administration nominated a Comcast attorney to be U.S. ambassador to Canada.

• Leading off, law firms’ summer recruiting offers and average class sizes all shrank because of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 as many large firms made “conservative” recruiting decisions despite hefty revenue and profit gains, according to a new report from the National Association for Law Placement. “There is a story that emerges, however, despite the asterisks, and ...