Two days ago, we reported that DLA Piper would let go 30 lawyers and 100 staffers. Today the firm announced that the bad news is even worse. DLA Piper has…
Los Angeles-based O’Melveny & Myers announced that profits per partner were down more than 7% to $1.5 million. Gross revenues for 2008 were $908 million, an almost 3% drop from…
Today Philadelphia’s Dechert is laying off 19 attorneys due to a “reduction in demand.” The layoffs are just the latest cuts at the firm, which employs more than 1,000 lawyers.…
Perkins Coie has filed a breach of contract suit against former intellectual property associate David Xue. According to court documents, Xue left the firm for Goodwin Procter in September 2008.…
The National Law Journal reports that public universities and law schools are making their faculty and staff take unpaid time off to save money. Public universities have begun furloughing employees…
Happy Birthday, Charles Darwin! This morning’s top stories: Japan’s Federation of Bar Associations has shaken up the island nation’s international legal community by declaring that all foreign lawyers, regardless of…
Minneapolis intellectual-property law firm Merchant & Gould is cutting 33 jobs, or 13% of its work force, citing the economic meltdown. The cuts include two partners, two patent agents, four…
Belfast, UK-based L’Estrange and Brett has made two solicitors and three secretaries redundant. One of the city’s oldest and largest law firms, L’Estrange made the redundancies as the housing and…
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