17 Mar 2009 12:00 AM
Winstead Cancels 2009 Summer Program
Dallas firm Winstead has canceled its 2009 summer associate program, firm spokeswoman Shannon Tipton confirmed on Thursday. News of the firm's decision to slash its summer program came a week after TexParte blog reported the firm had laid off some lawyers for economic reasons. Tipton declines to say how many law students were supposed to clerk or when they were told that they no longer had a job this summer. She confirms that the students were offered a stipend but did not disclose the size of the stipends.