Loeb & Loeb, which laid off four corporate lawyers in July, has “suspended” its Summer associates program at its New York office. No program will be held in 2010, nor…
Day Pitney, which in May laid off 20 lawyers and deferred incoming associates to January 2010, has announced it is revamping its Summer associate program for 2010. The new eight-week…
DLA Piper is both bringing on new partners, and letting others go. Five partners have left the firm in the last month, from the real estate, tax, corporate and projects…
Thomson Playford has laid off 19 lawyers and five staff in its Sydney and Adelaide, Australia offices. Thomson Playford Cutlers is a full service commercial law firm with offices in…
We reported yesterday that Kilpatrick Stockton had laid off 24 lawyers. This morning, police and firefighters responded when Mark Levy, Washington DC-based counsel and chair of Kilpatrick Stockton’s Supreme Court…
Chadbourne & Parke, which laid off 25 lawyers last month, has informed its attorneys and staff that salaries will be reduced starting in May. Details and numbers have not been…
The meltdown of the legal services industry, in the wake of the financial meltdown, is hurting biglaw firms as they shed lawyers and clients. But small firms are grabbing up…
The American Lawyer expects a “a paradigm-shifting, blood-in-the-suites, terror-on-the-campus hiring and retention crisis” in 2009. If nothing changes, this fall the same law firms that recently laid off lawyers will…
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