Corrs has delayed the start dates for its 2009 recruits, paying stipends of US$1,740 each. In March, the firm implemented a firm-wide salary freeze. There may be individual exceptions, and…
The UK offices of DLA Piper have cut incoming trainees from their intakes of newly-qualified lawyers. The firm will only be keeping four of its 12 trainees in Birmingham; 14…
California’s Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed cutting almost all state funding for the Hastings College of the Law, California’s oldest law school. The proposed $10.3 million cut would eliminate…
London-based law firm LG, formerly Lawrence Graham LLP, will hire just nine members of its incoming trainee class of 21. One of the departures was voluntary. In April, the firm…
London’s Freshfields will only hire 70% of its September 2009 trainees. Fourteen of the class of 48 trainees set to start this Fall in London will not be retained. Those…
McDermott Will & Emery has cut pay for its summer associates to $135,000, down from the Biglaw standard $160,000. McDermott says the cuts were in response to client concerns. The…
Torrance, California-based personal injury law firm AgnewBrusavich has awarded 27 scholarships to seniors from 16 local high schools. The firm has awarded 355 such scholarships in the last 15 years,…
Here’s a story that no legal blog is going to pass up: Mayer Brown has confirmed a possible swine flu outbreak at its Chicago office. From the memo, penned by…
Recent comments