Chicago-based Seyfarth Shaw, which in May laid off 50 people and reduced salaries, has brought on a new team of corporate and technology partners from Alston & Bird. Robert C.…
Blank Rome is cutting starting salaries for incoming associates. The rundown is as follows: New York City: $145,000, down from $160,000 Philadelphia & Princeton: $130,000, from $145,000 Wilmington & Washington…
Good morning! Here are the top stories: Baker Botts has opened a new office in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, and is expanding its other two Middle Eastern offices… The…
San Francisco’s Orrick, which laid off 300 employees in March, is abandoning lock-step compensation for associates. Under a lock-step scheme, associate salaries are determined entirely by how long the associate…
Today Atlanta’s Alston & Bird informed its associates that the firm is reducing all associate salaries by $5,000. At this time, the firm expects to reverse the salary cut at…
Milwaukee’s Techmeier Law Firm is merging with national personal injury and criminal defense firm The Cochran Firm. Techmeier will operate under the Cochran Firm name. Will Techmeier, founder of the…
Magic Circle law firm Clifford Chance saw average profits per equity partner drop 37% to £733,000 ($1.2 million) in the last fiscal year. Revenue fell 5% to £1.26 billion, which…
For months now, Biglaw firms have been offering voluntary, or imposing involuntary, deferral schemes on incoming associates. Now a law school had jumped on the bandwagon. The University of Miami…
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