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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting. DH felt like his pro bono is what got him chosen as part of the 2009 layoff.[/quote]

Not if he otherwise made his commercial hours. [/quote]

I did project financing at Biglaw in 2008. There were no hours b/c the economy dove off a cliff. Our shitty firm laid off 20 out of 22 associates. And it wasn't the genteel "indefinite time to find a new job" layoff. It was a "two weeks notice" layoff. It took a lot of us a year+ to find another position and some people never recovered their careers.

Do you not remember how terrible the legal job market was in 20008-2010? [/quote]

I remember. But I am saying it’s not that someone spent their time on pro bono. It’s that they didn’t have hours that lead to the layoff. [/quote]

I’m the PP with the DH. What the other PP is saying is that there were no hours to be had. DH went door to door daily asking for work - there was very little to go around. He was a 2nd year so couldn’t engage clients himself -  not that there were any to engage. I think he scraped up 1900 hours in 2008, but 200 of those were pro bono. He didn’t neglect any paid work - there wasn’t any. He also took 2 weeks paternity leave so he was (unwittingly) dead man walking. How naive we were back then! This was supposedly a “family friendly firm.” We bought it hook, line, and sinker.[/quote]

Your DH didn't get laid off because of pro bono or paternity leave, he was laid off because there wasn't enough work to keep him on. If he'd only scraped together 1700 hours by doing no pro bono and did it without taking those two weeks or leave, he most likely would have been laid off anyway.[/quote]

Perhaps. They spared the class behind him, keeping them all. At the time (and even now) it felt like a betrayal. Yes, it was a tough time but PPP was still over $1.320M and less than one year later they were hiring laterals.[/quote]

They hate to lay off first years b/c it really hurts recruiting. Second and third years were massacred in 2008-2009. [/quote]

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