Last week in law firm layoffs: Fish & Richardson: undisclosed lawyers Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle: undisclosed lawyers Ogier: 17 undisclosed Total: How can we have a total? Nobody’s offering…
Loeb & Loeb, which laid off four corporate lawyers in July, has “suspended” its Summer associates program at its New York office. No program will be held in 2010, nor…
Good morning! Here are the top stories: McCann Fitzgerald has deferred some of its trainees’ start dates by two years… Eckert Seamans has canceled its 2010 Summer associates program; and…
According to a JDJournal tipster, intellectual property firm Fish & Richardson, which in January laid off 30 staff members across its eight US offices, “laid off its entire corporate section…
Charles D. Holland joins K&L Gates from Morrison & Foerster as a partner in the Palo Alto office. He focuses on intellectual property matters. He has extensive experience in patent…
Cincinnati’s Dinsmore & Shohl and Louisville’s Woodward, Hobson & Fulton have merged, and will operate as Dinsmore & Shohl starting in September. Founded in 1917, Woodward is a large corporate,…
Two non-equity partners laid off from the Düsseldorf, Germany office of Clifford Chance are suing the firm over their termination. The partners were fired as shareholders, but claim they were…
San Francisco’s Howard Rice, which cut all associate salaries by 10% in June, is taking a one year break from its Summer associates program for 2010, despite an increase in…
Eckert Seamans, which laid off 90 temporary attorneys in July, has canceled its 2010 Summer associates program. Other than a terse announcement on its website, the firm has made no…
McCann Fitzgerald, which in May cut 25 employees through a voluntary redundancy program, has deferred some of its trainees’ start dates by two years. New trainees had already been informed…
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