The FBI has issued a statement warning U.S. law firms to be on the lookout for counterfeit check schemes. According to the FBI, “the schemers send e-mails claiming to be overseas and seeking legal representation to collect debts from a third party in the U.S. The firm then receives a retainer agreement, invoices reflecting the amount [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 8, 2009
Salt Lake City’s Holme Roberts & Owen has opened an office in Dublin, their third in the European Union, and the first US firm in Dublin. The office opened with 3 lawyers, 2 partners and an Irish lawyer, and plans to build a practice around corporate and commercial clients. Holme Roberts & Owen LLP is [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 3, 2009
A survey by the Dublin Solicitors Bar Association reports that 40% of new and low-level solicitors in the city have taken pay cuts averaging 15%; and 40% of incoming new solicitors have been laid off or lost their job offer. Furthermore, 40% (there’s that number again) are working without a contract; and 30% are considering changing [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 26, 2009
Blawgs are reporting on a bizarre effort by Irish firm TO Doyle to get “interns” who will work for free. The bizarre part is that the “interns” are fully-qualified lawyers. While the ad advertising the internship calls for a “law student,” it requires the applicant to have passed some or all of their examinations and to have [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, May 16, 2009
Dublin, Ireland’s Matheson Ormsby Prentice is laying off 25 lawyers from the firm’s corporate & commercial, banking & financial services, and tax departments. The firm is also cutting salaries by 10%. Trainees are not being targeted. The firm made 20 people redundant in February, and blames the economic downturn. Matheson Ormsby Prentice is a leading Irish corporate law [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, May 3, 2009
Matheson Ormsby Prentice has eliminated at least 15 jobs. The firm has also left vacancies unfilled, and did not retain some trainees. Dublin’s Matheson Ormsby Prentice is Ireland’s largest law firm. It had 600 employees before the cuts, but is now believed to have fewer than 580. They also have offices in London, New York City and Palo [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, May 3, 2009
McCann Fitzgerald is eliminating 25 employees through a voluntary redundancy program. The firm will also cut wages for all staff earning more than €37,500 ($49,800) a year. Professional staff will see salaries cut 10%, with a cut of 5% for administrative and secretarial staff. McCann Fitzgerald is based in Dublin, with 450 employees across offices in Belfast, London [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, April 5, 2009
Dublin law firm William Fry has made 17 staff redundant, and implemented pay cuts of up to 10%. The firm, one of Ireland’s “big five” legal practices, informed its 400 staff of the decisions this weekend. The pay cuts will apply to all employees on a sliding scale. William Fry has 63 partners, and offices in Dublin and [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 19, 2009
A&L Goodbody will cut 45 jobs, and the firm’s 555 remaining staff are likely to have their pay cut by 10% later this year. The company, whose staff are frequently involved in major corporate transactions and big legal cases before the courts, told staff yesterday that it wanted 20 voluntary redundancies from its team of 360 [...]
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