Lawyer Returns to Law at Wilson Sonsini After Stint as Recruiter
Robert Depew picked a bad time to switch from the practice of law to associate recruiting. In the year he recently spent working for Major, Lindsey & Africa, he made just one placement: himself. "The day I started was the day Lehman Brothers collapsed, and the fallout of that in the legal market was huge," he said. But a confluence of factors fell into place to aid Depew in going back into law practice, joining Wilson Sonsini's employment litigation group in October and making $210,000 as a fifth-year associate.
