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Marketing Heavyweights Set for Harvard Club Forum

joshua — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:55:36 +0000

The chief marketing officers of DLA Piper, Greenberg Traurig and Morrison & Foerster are slated to serve as co-chairs of a law firm marketing and business development forum to be held at the Harvard Club in New York City on March 11 and 12.

Sponsored by The American Lawyer, roundtable discussion is dubbed the “Law Firm Marketing & Business Development Leadership Forum: Next Level Legal Marketing for 2010 and Beyond. According to a press release, the forum will offer a wide variety of panel discussion sessions featuring leading law firm marketers, industry marketing consultants and law firm managing partners.

The three CMO’s slated to attend are Joe Calve of Morrison & Foerster, Jolene M. Overbeck of DLA Piper and Bob Robertson of Greenberg Traurig.

Calve joined MoFo as CMO in February. Previously CMO at Proskauer Rose, Calve oversees marketing and business development efforts at MoFo. Overbeck was named global chief marketing officer at DLA Piper in 2007. Previously CMO at Latham & Watkins, Overbeck oversees all aspects of DLA Piper’s marketing and business development efforts worldwide. Robertson has been CMO at Greenberg Traurig since 2009. He previously served as director of business development at Haynes & Boone.

The complete conference agenda and registration details are available at www.americanlawyer.com/business.

Bloomberg Unveils its Legal Search Engine

joshua — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:34:23 +0000

Bloomberg has been working on a database to rival Westlaw and Lexis for at least two years and the big coming out party is scheduled for the end of the month. You can take a sneak peek here.

From the company’s website:

“BLOOMBERG LAW is a legal, regulatory, and compliance research platform, offering a suite of news, data and analytics to the legal and compliance community. BLOOMBERG LAW can be tailored specifically for the needs of modern professionals, providing indispensable resources for legal research, compliance, business development, sector intelligence, and other information needs.
BLOOMBERG LAW’s news, data, and analysis are delivered in user-friendly formats and feature full-text database search and alert functionality, analytical reports, litigation research tools, and competitive intelligence profiles.”

Addleshaw Lays Off 85 Staff

Erik Even — Mon, 18 May 2009 19:42:27 +0000

Addleshaw Goddard, one of Britain’s largest firms, which announced in February it would cut 19 partners, has now announced the redundancies of 85 staff positions.

The layoffs target the firm’s Manchester office, and affect the business services division, including business development, human resources, information technology, finance, and secretarial.

No lawyers are being let go at this time, but the firm is instituting a salary freeze, and cutting pay for trainees. Addleshaw is also considering cutting hours.

Addleshaw Goddard LLP is a UK law firm, with almost 750 lawyers and 1,350 staff, based in Leeds, London and Manchester. It was formed in 2003 by the merger of Addleshaw Booth & Co with Theodore Goddard.

According to The Lawyer, a UK legal newspaper, Addleshaw Goddard was ranked 15th largest law firm in the UK by turnover in 2006.

Simmons & Simmons Lays Off 91

Erik Even — Fri, 15 May 2009 18:40:21 +0000

In February we reported on a redundancy consultation at Simmons & Simmons, which targeted 69 people — 20 associates and 49 support staffers.

This week the consultation ended, and 73 people have lost their jobs, including 18 associates. In addition, the firm has cut 18 business development and marketing personnel.

If you have any additional details on these layoffs, please send us a confidential tip!

London’s Simmons & Simmons is a leading international law firm with over 2,000 employees, and 20 offices located throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

Clifford Chance to Cut 115 Staffers

Erik Even — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:15:40 +0000

Clifford Chance has announced further cuts to its London office, with the Magic Circle firm set to make up to 115 business support staff redundant.

The firm started reviewing its 1,200 strong London business support staff earlier this year, with details emerging today that between 105 and 115 positions will be cut.

The job cuts, which come on top of a separate redundancy program for London lawyers that is expected to result in 80 job cuts, will affect all business support functions in London other than IT.

Clifford Chance is appointing employee representatives from functions including human resources, secretarial, mail room, building maintenance, finance, business development, and education and training departments. The representatives will communicate with staff and give feedback to the firm over the 90-day consultation period.

IT staff are subject to a separate consultation of the firm’s offshore global services center, which is expected to lead to a number of job losses and some positions being sent to India.

The firm declined to comment about cuts to its international offices.

In addition to the business support and associate job cuts, Clifford Chance is also mid-way through a wide-scale review of the firm’s partnership, which is expected to see a number of salaried and equity partners expelled.