Kilpatrick Stockton will cut associate salaries by 10%, effective July 1st. So, Happy Independence Day! Starting pay for associates will be cut from $145,000 to $130,000 in Atlanta and North…
A rumor making the rounds in blawgs today is that last week, Philadelphia’s Ballard Spahr cut associate salaries. The average cut is said to be 14%, but the individual cut…
According to online sources, St. Louis, Missouri-based Husch Blackwell has rolled back all starting salaries to 2007 levels. That will constitute cuts of between 5% and 10%. In March, the…
Denver’s 200-attorney Brownstein Hyatt has laid off 15 attorneys and 22 staff. Partners consulted with associates to determine a balance of salary cuts and layoffs. By accepting salary reductions, the…
Chicago’s Much Shelist Denenberg Ament & Rubenstein, a business-law firm with about 80 attorneys, will impose a 10% pay cut for partners and associates until May 31, the end of…
Washington DC law firm and lobbying group Arent Fox will freeze associate base compensation at the current 2008 rates for 2009. The firm will also place a 150-hour cap on…
Alston & Bird is the latest firm to freeze associate salaries at 2008 levels. The Atlanta firm has informed associates that raises planned for 2009 have been cancelled. Throughout 2008,…
The Project for Attorney Retention (PAR), an initiative of the Center for WorkLife Law at University of California Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, is suggesting to struggling law firms…
If you’re an associate of AmLaw 100 firm Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP, and you haven’t checked your email because you were busy figuring out whether to spend your…
DLA Piper associates were greeted with this email on Friday: 2008 has indisputably been one of the most challenging economic periods in recent history. DLA Piper, because of its global…
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