Buchanan Ingersoll Continues Staff Cuts

Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney has continued firmwide staff cuts this week; between 25 and 30 administrative positions were eliminated.

The firm is also wrapping up its annual review period, and attorneys may be let go for performance reasons.

Buchanan Ingersoll cut 25 administrative positions across the firm in November.

Buchanan Ingersoll has seen a number of high-level departures since 2007 and has said it wouldn’t jump to fill those spots simply to increase attorney headcount.

Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC is a large US law firm and lobbying group based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The firm has over 500 lawyers in sixteen offices nationwide, and was ranked 82nd on the National Law Journal’s 2008 list of the 250 largest law firms in the United States.

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Posted by Erik Even on February 21, 2009. Filed under Home,Law Firm News,Layoffs. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry