According to stories in the blawgosphere, Covington & Burling is in the process of laying off an undisclosed number of staff attorneys.
Those affected have been offered one or two weeks of severance depending on length of service, in exchange for a promise not to sue the firm over the circumstances of their termination.
The firm says it has released staff attorneys as the number of projects has dropped.
Covington & Burling LLP is an international law firm with offices in Beijing, Brussels, London, New York, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, San Diego, and Washington, DC. It consistently ranks among the top 20 on The American Lawyer’s prestigious “A-List.”
Posted by Erik Even
on May 28, 2009. Filed under Home,Law Firm News,Layoffs.
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