The American Lawyer has updated its list of AmLaw 200 law firms by percentage layoffs since January, 2008. More than 3,067 attorney jobs have been cut, or 2.75%. Here are…
Milwaukee’s Quarles & Brady has “suspended” its 2010 Summer Associate Program, citing its commitment to hire its new 2009 associates class, which has been deferred to January 2010. Quarles &…
Dorsey & Whitney, which in June laid off 55 staff members and cut associate salaries, has canceled its 2010 Summer Associate programs, except at the firm’s Minneapolis, Minnesota headquarters. The…
Blawgs are now reporting that in June, Gilbert Oshinsky laid off four attorneys and nine staff. The staffers included five senior secretaries, two administrative employees, an IT professional, and —…
The Syracuse, New York firm of Hancock & Estabrook has hired three new associates. Meghan S. Gaffey joins the firm’s corporate and health care practice. She previously interned for the…
Good morning! Happy birthday to one-time lawyer Claus von Bülow! Here are the top stories: The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the US legal services industry lost another 2,700…
Connecticut’s Democratic Attorney General, Richard Blumenthal, is shutting down the Nationwide Home Relief Law Group, an “illegal” law firm Blumenthal says bilked 200 Connecticuters of more than $750,000. Blumenthal says…
Paul Hastings has hired a team of three IP attorneys from Skadden. Jeff Randall joins Paul Hastings’ Palo Alto and Washington DC offices, as co-chair of the firm’s Global Intellectual…
Stonington, Connecticut’s Kepple Morgan & Avena has merged with New London’s Cole-Chu & Cipparone, creating the most unwieldy law firm name ever: Kepple, Cole-Chu, Cipparone, Avena & Zaccaro. Nick Kepple…
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