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In our annual midlevel associates survey, third-, fourth-, and fifth-year associates rate their firms as workplaces. We examined 12 areas that contribute to job satisfaction. Access the full report, including all the charts and feature stories, here.

Top in-house lawyers fear that diversity efforts among their outside counsel will suffer as jobs are cut. And our latest minority Experience Study suggests there's reason to worry.

The recession has helped usher in a new era. Better to embrace it than yearn for the good old days.

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom attorneys involved in an unusual pro bono case--trying to find a boy who went missing from a Brooklyn foster home in early 2010--are battling with city police over access to case files documenting the investigation into the child's disappearance.