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Drinker Biddle Will Not Defer Associates, But Will Cut Salaries

Drinker Biddle will allow its 36 incoming associates to start on time in September; but their salaries will be reduced, and they will enter a training program rather than jumping…

LakinChapman Lawyers Leave to Found New Firm

LakinChapman Lawyers Leave to Found New Firm

Four former LakinChapman attorneys have left to found a new firm in Alton, Illinois, called Armbruster, Dripps, Winterscheidt & Blotevogel. The firm will will represent plaintiffs in personal injury cases.…

ABA Offers Free Suicide Prevention Info

With two recent attorney suicides, and one from December just now announced, all probably spurred to the economic downturn, the American Bar Association is making available free information about legal…

Morning News Roundup for Monday

Morning News Roundup for Monday

Good morning! Here are the top stories: Last week in law firm layoffs: 274 lawyers, 160 staff, 40 undisclosed A tipster informs us that Texas’ Brown McCarroll laid off a…

Norton Rose to Implement Hour Reductions

Norton Rose to Implement Hour Reductions

Most offices of London’s Norton Rose have approved a flexible hours scheme first announced in March. The firm hopes to avoid redundancies by reducing hours. The scheme has been approved…

CMS Cameron McKenna to Cut 80, Reduce Pay

CMS Cameron McKenna to Cut 80, Reduce Pay

London’s CMS Cameron McKenna has announced a redundancy consultation at its headquarters, targeting 80 jobs. Twenty fee earners and 60 non-fee earners may be laid off. Other personnel are being…

Shoosmiths Targets 69 for Redundancy

Shoosmiths Targets 69 for Redundancy

Shoosmiths, which in April asked its 2009 trainees to withdraw from their contract, or defer until 2011, without any financial compensation, has today announced a redundancy consultation targeting 69 jobs.…

Hogan & Hartson Offers $75,000 Deferral

Hogan & Hartson Offers $75,000 Deferral

Washington, DC-based Hogan & Hartson has joined the ranks of law firms offering a $75,000 stipend to extend the deferrals of incoming associates, in this case to December 2010. The…

Tipster: Brown McCarroll Lays Off Lawyers and Staff

A tipster informs us that Texas’ Brown McCarroll has laid off a “significant number” of attorneys and staff in its Austin, Dallas and Houston offices. From the tipster (edited for…

The Week in Law Firm Layoffs

The Week in Law Firm Layoffs

This week in law firm layoffs: McDonough Holland & Allen: 4 lawyers, 13 staff Ruden McClosky: 2 lawyers, 18 staff Thompson & Knight: 17 lawyers, 25 staff Berwin Leighton Paisner:…