Good morning! Here are the top stories: DLA Piper confirms that it laid off 21 lawyers and 100 staff yesterday… Dewey & LeBoeuf has lured away a team of top lawyers from Cooley Godward Kronish… Chicago’s Baker & McKenzie has announced it is laying off 11% of its lawyers and staff in China… Edwards Angell has hired on two [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge has hired on two private equity and venture capital partners. Richard Kimball joins as partner from Nutter McClennen & Fish, to chair Edwards Angell’s emerging companies/technology practice group in Boston. At Nutter, Kimball was co-chair of the firm’s emerging growth companies practice group, and founded the firm’s award winning TechnOvation Awards [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Boston’s Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge has opened its first California office. Edwards Angell, which has 10 US offices, one in the UK, and an affiliated office in Hong Kong, is opening an office in Newport Beach. The firm opened the office to accommodate a specific client. They intend to add more clients in Southern California. Jon-Paul LaPointe, [...]
Continue reading...Friday, March 27, 2009
Yesterday, Edwards Angell announced the layoffs of 25 lawyers and 35 staff, or 15% of the firm’s workforce. Today the firm announced will delay the start dates for its incoming first year associates to March 1, 2010. Deferred first years will get a $10,000 stipend plus bar expenses. The firm has also canceled its 2009 summer associate program. [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 26, 2009
Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge has announced today the layoffs of 25 lawyers and 35 staff. That’s roughly 15% of the firm’s workforce. From the firm’s statement: Today we will inform about 25 lawyers and 35 staff that their employment with the Firm is ended, and will offer them severance arrangements similar to those offered by the [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 30, 2009
Boston’s Ropes & Gray cut 106 staff positions, or 10% of its non-lawyer staff. The firm made the cuts yesterday, and announced the news in a firmwide memo by Chairman Brad Malt. Malt stated that the firm’s clients and marketplace “have been seriously affected by the continuing global economic downturn.” Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld cut 65 [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 16, 2009
Boston’s Foley Hoag has cut 6% of its workforce in response to the economic meltdown, the law firm has announced. The layoffs affect 32 people, both associates and staff. Foley Hoag has 227 lawyers in Boston. Although Foley Hoag had strong financial results in 2008, we have concluded that a reduction in personnel is a prudent step [...]
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