It has spread to summer associates who expect to receive far fewer offers of permanent employment this year.

He'd never worked at a big firm, except in law school as a summer associate.

You have no idea how many times people wouldn't believe I was a summer associate.

One financial company alone had close to 1,000 summer associates come here, and this year it went back to normal with closer to 600.

By some estimates, a firm can spend more than $250,000 to entertain its summer associates.

The low-key approach toward selling themselves seems to resonate with the summer associates of the 90's.

Of the eight summer associates who visited him, two returned after the official tour and put themselves on his mailing list.

Until recently, both were summer associates at New York law firms.

I was a summer associate at Dunn Simon after my first year in law school.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that programs for summer associates bear little resemblance to law practice.