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Chicago’s Chapman and Cutler is taking steps to reduce costs, including laying off an undisclosed number of “underperforming” lawyers, and possibly cutting salaries. The firm has canceled its traditional May…
April 10, 2009Read More
Paul Hastings is laying off 131 employees today. From the official memo: …today we have completed a regretted but necessary step of reducing our workforce in the United States by…
March 10, 2009Read More
According to rumors on the Tubes (it’s not a truck!), Shearman & Sterling is laying off administrative staff today. Lawyers are apparently unaffected. An official announcement is expected tomorrow. If…
March 3, 2009Read More
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…
February 24, 2009Read More
UK firm Dickinson Dees is laying off 90 staff out of a total of 775, a number which includes 15 fee-earning solicitors. Every office except London will be affected, with…
February 12, 2009Read More
A tipster to Above the Law reports that major layoffs are taking place today at Bryan Cave. The firm had a meeting, and then told associates they would be getting…
February 12, 2009Read More
New York City’s Duval & Stachenfeld is laying off an undisclosed number of first and second year associates, according to a JDJournal tipster. If you know anything about what’s going…
January 20, 2009Read More
A JDJournal tipster says that Miami’s Greenberg Traurig is laying off “numerous” associates in New York City. Greenberg Traurig has been responding to the economic meltdown by bringing on new…
January 20, 2009Read More
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