APRIL 29, 2009  |  LAW PRACTICE   

New Lawyers Are Asking, 'What's Next?'
Laid-off Associates Seek Temp Jobs, Pro Bono Work, While Grappling With Bleak Future

By Rebecca U. Cho
Daily Journal Staff Writer  

As an associate at O'Melveny & Myers, Anthony Arnold tracked the legal blogs. He had read that Latham & Watkins laid off 440 people on a bleak Friday morning. So he was prepared on the following Tuesday in early March, when an O'Melveny representative broke the news to Arnold that he would be let go from the firm.  

Now out of a job, Arnold found himself faced with a question he had not expected so soon in his young career: What next? 

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