Dallas-based Winstead has rescinded offers to two incoming first-year associates, including one who was due to start work on Feb. 1. According to the firm, four first-years started work in September 2009 and another five are set to start work on Feb. 1, but the firm rescinded one offer in September and another on Jan. 28. “They just said there wasn’t any work for me,” says the lawyer who received the call from the firm on Jan. 28. The lawyer, who does not want to be identified, says she did pass the Texas bar exam. In a statement, the 262-lawyer firm says the offer was rescinded “as a result of the unfortunate reality of the changing economy.” Winstead declines to discuss which section the two lawyers whose offers were rescinded were supposed to work in or the Jan. 28 timing of the rescinded offer, which was just four days before the start date. The Above the Law blog first reported that Winstead had rescinded offers.
-- Brenda Sapino Jeffreys
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