According to sources, Clifford Chance has lost almost 50 partners since March of this year, most from New York City and the London headquarters office. Eighteen partners have left the firm in London, and another 18 in New York. Twelve have jumped ship in Europe. Clifford Chance is restructuring, and expects to lose 90 further partners, or [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 3, 2009
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Minneapolis, Minnesota-based Dorsey & Whitney has laid off 55 staff members, or 7% of the firm’s support staff. Seven of the firm’s offices were targeted, but 38 of the layoffs were at the Minneapolis headquarters. The firm saw flat revenues, with a small decrease in profits per partner, in 2008. Dorsey & Whitney LLP is a large law [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 21, 2009
Montréal, Quebec’s Harvey Simard Law Corporation has moved its headquarters to Hong Kong, and brought on Gaston Bruneau to head its Business Law Section there. The firm has operated in East Asia for 15 years, and is a Registered Foreign Law Firm in the Law Society of Hong Kong. Founded in 1995, Harvey Simard is a Canadian [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 23, 2009
Save for a skeleton staff authorized to wind up the affairs of the now-bankrupt Dreier LLP, attorneys remaining at the firm’s midtown Manhattan offices must leave the premises by March 4th. If the offices are not vacated by the agreed-upon date, the landlord, Hines 499 Park LLC, may “with the assistance of the United States Marshal” [...]
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