Gibson Dunn will open a new office in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in the next few weeks. The office will consist of New York corporate partner Lisa Alfaro, who is moving…
The Chicago office of Philadelphia’s Cozen O’Connor is recruiting, seeking to double its attorney workforce. Next year the office will move into a new, much larger space vacated by Skadden.…
Dublin, Ireland’s Matheson Ormsby Prentice is laying off 25 lawyers from the firm’s corporate & commercial, banking & financial services, and tax departments. The firm is also cutting salaries by…
Law firm Pannone has laid off 35 staff, and is asking employees to voluntarily work a four-day week. The layoffs affected administrative and support staff in the firm’s real estate…
New York’s Curtis has added five lawyers to the firm’s international corporate practice in Frankfurt, Germany. Partners Christian Fingerhut, Jörn Hirschmann, and Markus Söhnchen join from the Frankfurt office of…
Texas’ Thompson & Knight has laid off 17 associates, including two first-years, and 25 staff. The layoffs targeted the real estate and corporate practices. The firm has also pushed back…
Crowell & Moring LLP has added three senior lawyers to its London office. Timothy Leeson, a former Crowell & Moring lawyer, rejoins the firm from London’s Lawrence Graham LLP to…
Los Angeles’ Sheppard Mullin has recently hired three new attorneys in Los Angeles and China. This week the firm announced that corporate partner Brian D. Weimer from Latham & Watkins,…
Herbert Smith announced today it has begun a redundancy consultation at its London HQ, targeting 84 positions. The redundancies target 24 fee earners and professional support lawyers in the corporate…
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