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Pepper Hamilton Makes Offers to 50% of Summer Associates

Pepper Hamilton Makes Offers to 50% of Summer Associates

Last year, Pepper Hamilton made offers to 79% of its summer associates, firm wide. This year, the firm reports that 7 out of 14 of its summers, all in the…

News from the Hong Kong Judiciary

News from the Hong Kong Judiciary

If you or your firm do business in Hong Kong, you’ll want to keep a close eye on this story. Andrew Li, the Chief Justice of Hong Kong has announced…

Hogan & Hartson snags Bennett from Skadden

Hogan & Hartson snags Bennett from Skadden

Bob Bennett, whose high profile clients include such luminaries as President Bill Clinton, former Secretaries of Defense Clark Clifford and Caspar Weinberger, Judith Miller, and Enron, is reportedly moving from…

Thursday Roundup

Thursday Roundup

This week the news is coming in spurts. Monday was a slow day, Tuesday busy, and Wednesday things slowed down again. If today stays true to form it should be…

Kirkland to Layoff More than 20

Kirkland to Layoff More than 20

Kirkland & Ellis piled on the bad news today with layoffs in their New York and Washington DC offices. More than 20 were let go in New York, and an…

Speculation About Supreme Court Vacancy

Speculation About Supreme Court Vacancy

The Blawgosphere is buzzing today with speculation that Justice John Paul Stevens might be getting set to retire. The evidence? Instead of a full complement of clerks, Stevens has thus…

Layoffs at Sonnenschein

Layoffs at Sonnenschein

A spokesman for Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal confirmed today that the firm has laid off some associates but has not verified a number. This comes on top of the companies…

Wednesday Morning Roundup

Wednesday Morning Roundup

After a slow news day on Monday, things picked up quite a bit yesterday. Here’s a recap of the top stories… We updated our story on Morgan Lewis and summer…

Morgan Lewis Update

Morgan Lewis Update

Last week we reported that Morgan Lewis was not making any offers to its summer associates in the Washington DC office. i After the firm put out a statement to…

Mayer Brown Asks Deferred Associates to Start Early

Mayer Brown Asks Deferred Associates to Start Early

For the second time in two weeks, a major law firm has bucked the trend and asked associates to start early. Mayer Brown today asked half of the new class…