TGIF! There was a fair number of layoffs yesterday: Dechert laid off 63 lawyers and 62 staffers yesterday… Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge booted 25 lawyers and 35 staff, about…
Indianapolis, Indiana’s Bose McKinney & Evans is cutting 10 attorney, two paralegal and 13 staff positions. The cuts affect 7% of the attorneys and 11% of the staff of the…
Fox Rothschild has hired the nine-lawyer Pastore Osterberg firm of Stamford, Connecticut, which was previously a Dreier LLC office. The business litigation practice will be the 15th office for Phialdelphia’s…
Kluger Peretz Kaplan & Berlin, a 40-lawyer firm with offices in Miami and Boca Raton, Florida, is dissolving as two name partners, Howard Berlin and Steven Peretz, jump ship. Berlin…
Weil, Gotshal & Manges has announced it is deferring its incoming associates’ start dates to January 2010, and is asking new hires to voluntarily wait until 2011. Weil is also…
London’s Clifford Chance today laid off 24 of its New York associates. It is expected that the firm will announce further layoffs shortly. Also, incoming associates will be deferred to…
Former Department of Homeland Security secretary and federal appellate court judge Michael Chertoff is joining Covington & Burling’s white-collar defense and investigations practice group in Washington, DC. Chertoff will be…
Over five years, London firms’ hiring of lateral partners has almost doubled, from 42 hires in 2004 to 79 in 2008. The data come from a Legal Week study tracking…
Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge has announced today the layoffs of 25 lawyers and 35 staff. That’s roughly 15% of the firm’s workforce. From the firm’s statement: Today we will…
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