Leon R. Sequeira has joined Seyfarth Shaw as of counsel in the labor and employment department. Sequeira most recently served as assistant secretary of labor for policy at the U.S. Department of Labor from 2007-09. Seyfarth Shaw’s labor and employment department has nearly 350 employment attorneys nationally. Sequeira will join other two other recent additions to [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 10, 2009
Good morning! Here’s a quick recap of yesterday’s top stories… Katten picked up four litigatorsfrom Hunton & Williams… Andrew Cuomo and Bank of America continued their public squabble… Sonnenschein undergoes another round of layoffs…. Merger talks are over between Ice Miller and Greenbaum Doll… And the Department of Labor is hiring 250 investigators…
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Reacting to a report showing widespread violations of labor and wage laws in low paying urban jobs, the US Department of Labor is hiring 250 investigators as part of an effort to ramp up enforcement. According to Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, “There is no excuse for the disregard of federal labor standards — [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 9, 2009
According to a report issued Friday by the US Department of Labor, the legal services sector shrank by 4,200 in February 2009. The Bureau of Labor Statistics says the 0.36% drop from January reflects a continued series of layoffs by US firms. Here’s a complete rundown of last week’s major law firm layoffs. Since February 2008, 21,000 jobs [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 6, 2009
The legal services industry continued to slash payrolls in January with a loss of 1,300 jobs, according to the US Department of Labor. The job losses in the legal sector were .003% of the 598,000 jobs shed throughout the US last month, as the national unemployment rate rose to 7.6%. Since the current recession began in December [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 12, 2009
According to the Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, the legal services industry in the United States shed some 7,000 jobs between December 2007 and December 2008. The numbers include lawyers, paralegals, public relations specialists, secretaries and other positions; and reflect layoffs by firms nationwide over the last few months, and the dissolutions of Am Law 100 firms [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Two Bush-era apparatchiks are joining Philadelphia’s Morgan Lewis & Bockius as partners in the firm’s Washington, DC office. Thomas J. Lang was a senior trial counsel for the Federal Trade Commission, who led the government’s trial teams in recent merger cases. He will join the 136-year-old firm’s antitrust practice. Jonathan L. Snare was deputy solicitor at the Department of [...]
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