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This week, big law firm layoffs are back. Dykema, which according to a JDJournal tipster has laid off at least 20 lawyers and 30 staff, has confirmed that 17 attorneys and 30 staff have been let go since November 2008. Severance packages were offered. The layoffs were blamed on the economy. Dykema Gossett PLLC is a law firm headquartered...
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Blake Lapthorn has launched its third redundancy consultation in the past nine months, targeting 33 positions in business services and secretarial at the firm’s UK offices. Lawyers may also be affected. The firm blames the economic meltdown. Blake Lapthorn laid off 33 people at the end of last year, and 20 employees in March. Blake Lapthorn is a [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 15, 2009
Phoenix, Arizona-based law firm Fennemore Craig has announced it cut 17 jobs. Ten staffers were let go this month; and seven attorneys were shown the door this February. The firm blames the economic meltdown. Business law firm Fennemore Craig, PC employs over 200 attorneys, across offices in Phoenix, Tucson, and Nogales, Arizona; Las Vegas, Nevada; and Denver, [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 12, 2009
Blake Dawson will announce redundancies tomorrow, Friday the 13th, with “less than 100″ people affected. The firm says the cuts are all related to the global economic meltdown. This will be the second round of redundancies at the Melbourne, Australia-based firm, as at least four property and finance lawyers have been laid off since the beginning of [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 3, 2009
DLA Piper announced today it is laying off 20 lawyers and 34 staff across its Asian offices, in response to the global economic meltdown. DLA Piper has in recent years built up one of the largest Asia practices of any international law firm, with offices in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo, and Bangkok. The majority of [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 3, 2009
As predicted, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe is laying off a total of 300 employees. Orrick has begun a firmwide reduction in its workforce in the United States and Asia and redundancy consultations in Europe that will affect approximately 100 associates and 200 staff. These actions are made necessary by the world economic crisis and the impact [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, March 1, 2009
Stone King Sewell, which employs 200 people across four offices, has made a total of 16 redundancies, including 10 staff from its Bath, UK HQ. Workers have been told the volume of work had slowed considerably in the economic downturn. It is believed its property team has been hit hardest, with eight out of 10 jobs eliminated Staff [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 20, 2009
The National Law Journal reports that major firms brought on as many new associates in 2008 as they did in 2007, leaving them with many new hires despite the current industry-wide layoffs. Despite the economic nosedive that began gaining momentum in 2008, the nation’s biggest law firms hired just about the same percentage of graduates from [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 17, 2009
The Boston Globe reports that the economic meltdown could have a devastating impact on the American justice system, as courts are forced to lay off employees and cut down on court hours, according to Massachusetts’ top judge. “I shall be blunt: Our state courts are in crisis,” Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall told [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 13, 2009
Wolf Block is cutting associate pay by 10%, which will go into effect at once. Other firms have frozen salaries for 2009, but Wolf Block appears to be the first US law firm to cut salaries in response to the economic meltdown. WolfBlock LLP, formerly Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen, is a law firm and lobbying group [...]
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