UPDATED On Friday we reported that Fish & Richardson is closing up shop in Austin. In an update to this story, the firm has announced that they are discontinuing their corporate group as a seperate practice group, effective at the end of this year. The corporate group has 14 lawyers firm wide, some of which will [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 21, 2009
According to a JDJournal tipster, intellectual property firm Fish & Richardson, which in January laid off 30 staff members across its eight US offices, “laid off its entire corporate section on Wednesday.” That’s all we got. If you know anything about stealth layoffs at Fish & Richardson, please — send us a confidential tip! Founded in 1878, [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Blawgs are now reporting that in June, Gilbert Oshinsky laid off four attorneys and nine staff. The staffers included five senior secretaries, two administrative employees, an IT professional, and — ironically — a legal recruiter. The firm says the layoffs were not performance-based. Based in Washington DC, with offices in Los Angeles and Austin, Gilbert Oshinsky represents corporations, [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 16, 2009
Husch Blackwell, which in March laid off 17 lawyers and 45 staff, announced this week it has laid off 10 lawyers. No further details are availability. If you know anything about layoffs at Husch Blackwell, please — send us a confidential tip! Husch Blackwell Sanders is a multi-national litigation and business services law firm based in St. [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 15, 2009
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A JDJournal tipster informs us that the Detroit headquarters of Miller Canfield has let go 25 people, which includes approximately 16 lawyers, including partners. The cuts targeted a group that did work for Chrysler. If you know anything about layoffs at Miller Canfield, please — send us a confidential tip! Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone was established in [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Tennessee’s Bass Berry has laid off 10 associates and 22 staff. That’s 5% of attorney headcount and 9% of staff. The layoffs targeted the firm’s Knoxville and Memphis offices, as well as the Nashville headquarters. The firm said the layoffs were due to the “needs of [their] clients,” and were not related to the economic downturn. That [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, May 16, 2009
Guernsey’s Collas Day has made six staff redundant, three of them voluntarily. The firm is reorganizing, and recently launched a London footprint. Collas Day, headquartered in St. Peter Port, employs eight partners and 74 staff. The Bailiwick of Guernsey is a British Crown Dependency in the English Channel, off the coast of Normandy.
Continue reading...Saturday, May 16, 2009
Dublin, Ireland’s Matheson Ormsby Prentice is laying off 25 lawyers from the firm’s corporate & commercial, banking & financial services, and tax departments. The firm is also cutting salaries by 10%. Trainees are not being targeted. The firm made 20 people redundant in February, and blames the economic downturn. Matheson Ormsby Prentice is a leading Irish corporate law [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 30, 2009
Earlier this week we reported the rumor that Squire Sanders fired 30 attorneys last Friday. It has now been confirmed that the firm cut 32 lawyers in total, including seven at its largest office in Cleveland, Ohio. Most of those cut had been with the firm less than three years. The pay cuts we reported have also [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Kilpatrick Stockton has laid off 24 lawyers. The firm blames the economic meltdown. Those laid off have been offered a “competitive and generous” severance package. That’s all we know — if you have any additional details, please send us a confidential tip! Last week the firm deferred its incoming associate class from September 2009 to April 2010. Kilpatrick Stockton [...]
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