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Kramer Levin Trio Named Most Powerful Employment Attorneys

Kramer Levin Trio Named Most Powerful Employment Attorneys

Three attorneys from Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel – Kevin Leblang, Michael Nassau and Theodore (Ted) Ruthizer – have been named to Human Resource Executive magazine’s 2010 list of Most…

WilmerHale Opening New Center in Ohio

WilmerHale Opening New Center in Ohio

WilmerHale announced its opening a business services center in Dayton, Ohio. The center will open officially in September and will house approximately 187 workers. Employees will come from existing WilmerHale…

Addleshaw Lays Off 85 Staff

Addleshaw Lays Off 85 Staff

Addleshaw Goddard, one of Britain’s largest firms, which announced in February it would cut 19 partners, has now announced the redundancies of 85 staff positions. The layoffs target the firm’s…

Clifford Chance to Cut 115 Staffers

Clifford Chance to Cut 115 Staffers

Clifford Chance has announced further cuts to its London office, with the Magic Circle firm set to make up to 115 business support staff redundant. The firm started reviewing its…

Law Firm Layoffs Spark Lawsuits

The ABA Journal notes that an unprecedented wave of law firm layoffs is leading to a second wave of ex-employee lawsuits. The suits could air “salacious allegations that once remained…

Heller Ehrman Files for Bankruptcy; Remaining Employees May Not Be Paid

Heller Ehrman Files for Bankruptcy; Remaining Employees May Not Be Paid

What’s left of San Francisco’s Heller Ehrman, which dissolved in November, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Former Heller partner Peter Benvenutti said the firm filed not because it is out…

UK Firm to Female Lawyers: Try to Dress More Feminine. But Don’t Be a Slut!

Magic Circle law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP apparently has a lot of money lying around, a lot of free time, and a complete collection of Mad Men DVDs. They…

How Should Law Firms Deal With a 0% Attrition Rate?

From Bruce MacEwen’s blog: An unspoken, and certainly uncelebrated, aspect of the law firm associate personnel model is built-in attrition. “Built-in” can have two traditional meanings, and one new one:…