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Collas Day Lays Off 6 Staff

Collas Day Lays Off 6 Staff

Guernsey’s Collas Day has made six staff redundant, three of them voluntarily. The firm is reorganizing, and recently launched a London footprint. Collas Day, headquartered in St. Peter Port, employs…

Matheson Ormsby Prentice Lays Off 25 Lawyers, Cuts Salaries

Matheson Ormsby Prentice Lays Off 25 Lawyers, Cuts Salaries

Dublin, Ireland’s Matheson Ormsby Prentice is laying off 25 lawyers from the firm’s corporate & commercial, banking & financial services, and tax departments. The firm is also cutting salaries by…

Pannone Lays Off 35 Staff, Goes to 4-Day Week

Pannone Lays Off 35 Staff, Goes to 4-Day Week

Law firm Pannone has laid off 35 staff, and is asking employees to voluntarily work a four-day week. The layoffs affected administrative and support staff in the firm’s real estate…

Offit Kurman Poaches 10 from Deckelbaum

Offit Kurman Poaches 10 from Deckelbaum

Maple Lawn’s Offit Kurman has hired a team of ten lawyers away from Bethesda, Maryland’s Deckelbaum, Ogens & Raftery. The addition brings the number of lawyers at Offit Kurman to…

Morning News Roundup for Saturday

Morning News Roundup for Saturday

Happy Weekend! Here’s the news: Two key partners at New York’s Skadden have jumped ship to Kirkland & Ellis… Blake Dawson has eliminated 23 lawyers and 66 support staff… DLA…

Thomson Playford Cuts 19 Lawyers, 5 Staff

Thomson Playford Cuts 19 Lawyers, 5 Staff

Thomson Playford has laid off 19 lawyers and five staff in its Sydney and Adelaide, Australia offices. Thomson Playford Cutlers is a full service commercial law firm with offices in…

Fennemore Craig Cuts 7 Lawyers, 10 Staff

Fennemore Craig Cuts 7 Lawyers, 10 Staff

Phoenix, Arizona-based law firm Fennemore Craig has announced it cut 17 jobs. Ten staffers were let go this month; and seven attorneys were shown the door this February. The firm…

DLA Piper Slashes Salaries

DLA Piper, which this week laid off 24 lawyers and 100 support staff across its UK offices, today announced salary reductions. From the memo: Our partners… have already accepted significant…

Simmons & Simmons Lays Off 91

Simmons & Simmons Lays Off 91

In February we reported on a redundancy consultation at Simmons & Simmons, which targeted 69 people — 20 associates and 49 support staffers. This week the consultation ended, and 73…

Morris Manning Hires Group from Bryan Cave

Morris Manning Hires Group from Bryan Cave

Atlanta’s Morris, Manning & Martin has hired 12 lawyers and staff this year, including a seven-member timber & forest products practice group from Bryan Cave. The Bryan Cave group is…