Pasadena, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/04/2010 -- Law students working as summer associates at Biglaw have started getting job offers, and they are being offered to entire batches.

The surprise news comes close on the fact that this summer, major law firms cut down on summer hiring by 44 percent. There are also reports that the major law firms are going to be hiring more summer associates for summer 2011, although these same firms had cut down on their summer associates for summer 2010.

The main firms that have made offers to their entire batch of summer associates are Latham & Watkins and Pepper Hamilton at its Philadelphia branch. Sheppard Mullin has also announced that it is restoring its starting salaries for junior associates by raising it from $145,000 to $160,000.

Although most law schools have not reported increases in hiring for summer associates for 2011 or the graduating class, CEO A. Harrison Barnes of LawCrossing feels that the legal job market is definitively improving. “We keep searching for every law job opening across the country and that is why we could come up with almost 15,000 jobs in seven days.”

LawCrossing is a job aggregator site for all types of legal jobs. Its database carries attorney jobs (29,677), law student/Clerkship (16,260), legal staff jobs (12,666), partner jobs (257), postgraduate clerkship (586), and summer associate/ internships (774).

For more information on LawCrossing, please visit http://www.lawcrossing.com.