Dorsey & Whitney, which in June laid off 55 staff members and cut associate salaries, has canceled its 2010 Summer Associate programs, except at the firm’s Minneapolis, Minnesota headquarters. The…
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday that the US legal services industry lost another 2,700 jobs in July, a 0.23% drop. The industry employs 1.13 million lawyers and staff.…
New York City’s Schulte Roth & Zabel, which in April laid off 20 attorneys and deferred 2009 associates to 2010, has informed its current Summer associates that no job offers…
London’s The Times newspaper predicts that up to 10,000 UK lawyers could lose their jobs over the next two years, based on interviews with recruiters, consultants and senior law firm…
In what is undoubtedly going to be a major trend, Frisco law firm Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold is the first prominent firm to announce that it has entirely canceled…
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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