According to The American Lawyer’s annual associate survey, satisfaction levels have jumped across the board with training and also financial transparency fuelling major year-on-year gains.

Manageable workloads

In the survey, 57 per cent of respondents described their firms as ‘appropriately staffed’, a 7 per cent increase from last year. While 79 per cent described their workload as ‘manageable’, a 2 per cent gain over 2011.
A whopping 92 per cent of those surveyed said that if they had the choice, they would come to their current firm again, a 2 per cent rise from the previous year.
One legal recruiter told the web site: ‘I think that this group of mid-level associates realises that any gripes they may continue to have, have less to do with any recession-related changes and more to do with whether Big Law fits into the lifestyle they want.’