Seyfarth Shaw, which laid off 50 people in May, has announced it will not host a Summer associate program in 2010. The firm stressed that the cancellation is a one-time decision, and is not permanent. It will also continue to hire from law schools. Last year’s Summers will start in either January or October 2010, and this [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 10, 2009
O’Melveny & Myers, which in March laid off 190 people, is freezing salaries for staffers across the firm. Lawyers are not affected. There will be no salary increases in 2009; and the performance evaluation cycle will now cover July 2008 to July 2010. Salary increases will be considered in (but are not promised for) July 2010. O’Melveny [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 1, 2009
White & Case has laid off 31 staff in Moscow, as part of the global redundancy program announced in March. Of the 31 affected, 18 were legal staff. White & Case LLP is a leading global law firm with 38 offices in 25 countries. It was founded in New York in 1901. The American Lawyer ranked the [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 23, 2009
White & Case, which laid off 200 associates and 200 staffers in March, has added two new partners to its litigation practice in New York. Gregory Little and Scott Hershman come from Hunton & Williams, where Little was head of the firm’s New York Litigation Group and a former member of the firm’s executive committee. Hershman was [...]
Continue reading...Monday, April 20, 2009
Kansas City, Missouri-based law firm Spencer Fane has laid off eight staff members. The lay-offs targeted three in tony Clayton, Missouri, and five in Kansas City. In addition to its Kansas City headquarters and Clayton office, the 130-attorney Spencer Fane Britt & Browne has offices in Omaha, Nebraska and Overland Park, Kansas.
Continue reading...Sunday, April 19, 2009
Washington DC’s Howrey has laid off 25 secretarial staffers. Cuts came in all offices except Palo Alto and New York. Those affected are getting severance packages, health care assistance and outplacement. In addition, Howrey is demanding that non-equity partners contribute capital; and all partners, equity and non-equity, will be able to contribute voluntary capital, and some have [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 26, 2009
With what the firm officially characterizes as “deep regret,” Dechert has laid off 63 lawyers and 62 staffers today. The cuts affect offices throughout the firm. Flunded in 1975, Dechert LLP is an international law firm of more than 1,000 lawyers with top-ranked practices in corporate and securities, complex litigation, finance and real estate, and financial services [...]
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