This week in law firm layoffs: Eckert Seamans: 90 lawyers Hogan & Hartson: 30 lawyers Clifford Chance: 50 lawyers DLA Piper: 21 lawyers, 100 staff Keddies Lawyers: 40 undisclosed lawyers,…
Good morning! It’s the birthday of lawyer and US president John Quincy Adams. He’d be 242 years young today. Here are the top stories: Eckert Seamans has laid off another…
London’s Hammonds LLP saw profits per equity partner fall to £276,000 ($446,000) for the recently ended fiscal year. The firm laid off 77 staffers and cut 20 partners in February.…
Hogan & Hartson has let go 30 senior associates this week, as part of the normal performance evaluation process. Before the layoffs the firm employed 140 senior associates, defined as…
San Francisco, California’s Howard Rice cut all associate salaries by 10% last month. Incoming associate salaries were cut from $160,000 to $145,000. Fourth-years now make $170,000, and seventh-years make $225,000.…
Allen & Overy has announced its revenue for the last fiscal year was up 7% to more than £1.09 billion ($1.77 billion), despite a large number of layoffs. Profits fell…
Dallas, Texas-based law firm McKool Smith has nabbed three intellectual property lawyers away from Dewey & LeBoeuf. Dewey IP litigation co-chair Dirk Thomas, partner Robert Auchter, and of counsel Jeffrey…
Good morning! Here are the top stories: San Francisco’s Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has informed its 2009 summers associates that any job offers will not start until January 2012… Chicago-based…
Clifford Chance’s office in Budapest, Hungary will spin off from the firm, to form the new Lakatos, Köves & Partners. London’s Clifford Chance says it is dropping the office as…
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