Today Atlanta’s Alston & Bird informed its associates that the firm is reducing all associate salaries by $5,000. At this time, the firm expects to reverse the salary cut at…
Morrison & Foerster has hired two outsourcing experts from Alston & Bird. Christopher Ford and Scott Stevenson advised the state of Georgia in a $1.7 billion contract to outsource information…
Birmingham, Alabama law firm Leitman, Siegal & Payne will acquire cross-town rival Campbell, Gidiere, Lee, Sinclair & Williams. The two firms will move together into a new headquarters. The combination…
Troutman Sanders announced today that the firm will lay off associates and offer staff a voluntary buyout, which is likely to be followed by a layoff. The 778-lawyer firm also…
First LA’s Paul Hastings announced the layoff of 10 Atlanta associates. Now tipsters tell Above the Law that the firm is holding stealth layoffs today at its Los Angeles HQ.…
Adorno & Yoss is expanding its Atlanta office at a time when many national firms are instituting hiring freezes or layoffs. The firm has added 13 lawyers — eight partners…
Burr & Forman LLP, a law firm with offices throughout the Southeast, announced it has merged with the central Florida firm of Graham, Builder, Jones, Pratt & Marks LLP. The…
A murder defendant who has been denied legal representation for eight months is suing the head of the Georgia public defender system. “This is surely an unprecedented deprivation of counsel…
While fifteen electors were meeting in Atlanta today to cast their votes for John McCain, four state lawmakers called for the nation to abandon the Electoral College and instead elect…
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