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Law Firms Continue to Squeeze Associates with Salary and Bonuses

Law Firms Continue to Squeeze Associates with Salary and Bonuses

Law firms across the country are starting to recover from the recession but plenty of them are not bringing their younger lawyers with them. Despite returning profits, partners are being…

Little Sympathy Given By ABA To Jobless Lawyers

Little Sympathy Given By ABA To Jobless Lawyers

Upcoming lawyer face enormous financial debt from college only to enter into a legal market with no available jobs. Despite this disheartening fact, William Robinson, the president of the American…

Law Firm Expanding into Amherst as Baum Closes

Law Firm Expanding into Amherst as Baum Closes

A law firm from Long Island that specializes in insurance defense and mortgage foreclosures is looking to open an office in Amherst. The reason for this is that the firm…

Willkie Farr is Raided for In-House Talent

Willkie Farr is Raided for In-House Talent

Willkie Farr may be getting raided, but it’s not entirely a bad thing. Because Willkie is just losing talent to a top client, instead of losing talent to a rival…

Could the Next Biglaw Wave of the Future Be On-Shore Outsourcing?

Could the Next Biglaw Wave of the Future Be On-Shore Outsourcing?

Right on the heels of support staff layoffs, and also on-shore outsourcing efforts at the hands of O’Melveny & Myers, we have some news of another law firm doing the…

Life for Lawyers after Layoffs

Life for Lawyers after Layoffs

Lawyers are not very often referred to as refugees. However times are tough in the economic times of lawyers as well. Major Law firms have been notorious for laying- off…

BLS Data Shows That Legal Jobs Market Barely Grew In August

BLS Data Shows That Legal Jobs Market Barely Grew In August

The latest jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the legal job market is not faring any better than the general jobs market. The legal job market…

Three Down at Boies Schiller

Three Down at Boies Schiller

The NY Times Dealbook is reporting that three associates, all female, were let go late last week by Boies Schiller.  All three were part of a team that lost a major…

Howrey Drops the Ax on 32 Staffers

Howrey Drops the Ax on 32 Staffers

According to multiple online reports, Howrey has laid off 32 staffers across its 10 offices. Howrey, which confirmed the cuts in an e-mail to several media outlets, described the move…

Survey: NLJ 250 Firms Continue to Shed Lawyer Jobs

Survey: NLJ 250 Firms Continue to Shed Lawyer Jobs

The National Law Journal reported overall headcount at the nation’s 250 largest law firms fell for a second straight year. Following last year’s 4 percent drop, the survey found firms…

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