Checking out

Except for the few who have moved on to the law journal competition, the kids are all holed up in our Athens hotel banging out their take-home exams. I’m pretty much packed up—prematurely because I don’t jet out ’til Tuesday. But everyone’s already mentally back home. At breakfast, conversation was about law firms eliminating summer associate programs or cutting salaries and about what classes to drop and add when classes resume in two weeks. From what I gather, it seems like the South Florida firms have scaled back their on-campus interviewing, just as firms nationwide have frozen hiring or deferred start dates to 2011. Students who in past years would have had their dance card full now don’t.