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Snell & Wilmer Lays Off Up to 40 Staffers [Update 2]

Snell & Wilmer Lays Off Up to 40 Staffers [Update 2]

Snell & Wilmer has laid off between 30 and 40 staff members, most at its Phoenix, Arizona headquarters. A more precise number has not been provided. No lawyers were affected.…

Herbert Smith Avoids Involuntary Redundancies

Herbert Smith Avoids Involuntary Redundancies

Herbert Smith, which announced in April a redundancy consultation at its London HQ, targeting 84 positions, will not need to lay anyone off after all, after 84 staff members signed…

The Week in Law Firm Layoffs

The Week in Law Firm Layoffs

This week in law firm layoffs: LG: 12 lawyers Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer: 14 lawyers Weil, Gotshal & Manges: 79 staff Snell & Wilmer: 40 staff Covington & Burling: undisclosed lawyers…

Law Firm LG to Send Home 12 Trainees

Law Firm LG to Send Home 12 Trainees

London-based law firm LG, formerly Lawrence Graham LLP, will hire just nine members of its incoming trainee class of 21. One of the departures was voluntary. In April, the firm…

Freshfields Will Not Hire 30% of Incoming Trainees

Freshfields Will Not Hire 30% of Incoming Trainees

London’s Freshfields will only hire 70% of its September 2009 trainees. Fourteen of the class of 48 trainees set to start this Fall in London will not be retained. Those…

Weil Gotshal Lays Off 79 Staff

Weil Gotshal Lays Off 79 Staff

Weil, Gotshal & Manges has eliminated 79 administrative positions across its US offices. Those targeted will get severance packages with transitional income and benefits, including health care and outplacement. In…

McDermott Will & Emery Reduces Summer Associate Pay

McDermott Will & Emery Reduces Summer Associate Pay

McDermott Will & Emery has cut pay for its summer associates to $135,000, down from the Biglaw standard $160,000. McDermott says the cuts were in response to client concerns. The…

Clifford Chance to Lay Off New York Litigation Associates

Clifford Chance to Lay Off New York Litigation Associates

Mark Kirsch, head of Clifford Chance’s US litigation practice, has left the firm, leaving the 29 associates in the firm’s New York litigation group under threat of layoffs. The group…

Morning News Roundup for Friday

Morning News Roundup for Friday

TGIF! Here are the top stories: Seven bankruptcy lawyers at the Los Angeles office of Kirkland & Ellis have left the firm to join Jones Day… Covington & Burling is…

Ladas & Parry Brings on Partners from Schweitzer Cornman

Ladas & Parry Brings on Partners from Schweitzer Cornman

Ladas & Parry has hired Michael Cornman, Jay Bondell, and Meyer Gross, all former partners at New York intellectual property firm Schweitzer Cornman Gross & Bondell. Ladas & Parry brought…

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