Happy Friday. I hope you’ve made it through the week without getting laid off. San Francisco IP firm Townsend and Townsend and Crew has laid off 16 attorneys, 45 staff, and two ampersands… Nine lawyers from Chicago’s Vedder Price are vedder, vedder upset to have been laid off… DLA Piper has placed 20% of its remaining Dubai-based lawyers [...]
Continue reading...Friday, March 6, 2009
Various blawgs are reporting that Chicago-based Kirkland & Ellis has laid off four attorneys this week, and more firings are on the way today. If you know anything about layoffs at Kirkland & Ellis, please send us a confidential tip! We’ll keep you updated, so watch this space. Kirkland & Ellis LLP was the seventh largest law firm [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 2, 2009
Above the Law reports that late last year, Schulte Roth let go up to 30 associates. We’ve been receiving reports of layoffs at Schulte Roth & Zabel since last summer, but were unable to confirm them until now. These days, it can be difficult to differentiate between “performance-based layoffs” and “economically-motivated layoffs.” Schulte’s spokespeople say all layoffs [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 24, 2009
The number of legal secretaries and other support staff that have been laid off at firms in recent months is in the hundreds. Most first cite the struggling economy as the main reason for the layoffs. Regardless of the circumstances, the layoffs suggest a growing trend of fewer and fewer legal secretaries employed by large [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 13, 2009
Yesterday, Thursday, February 12th, 2009, six prominent firms fired over 700 attorneys and legal staffers, in what is becoming known as Black Thursday in the legal industry. DLA Piper; Holland & Knight; Goodwin Procter; Bryan Cave; Epstein Becker & Green; and Dechert all confirmed layoffs yesterday. Faegre & Benson also confirmed it initiated layoffs, and Cozen O’Connor [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 16, 2009
Philly’s Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll has laid off secretarial and administrative staff personnel, the second round of staff cuts at the firm since the summer. Rumors suggest a significant number of staff cuts at Ballard Spahr, with attorneys being affected as well in the firm’s Los Angeles office. Sources put the number of layoffs between [...]
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