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 firm claims the cancellations are not to save money. Dorsey & Whitney LLP is a large law firm, with close to 700 lawyers and 850 staff, located [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 22, 2009
In an effort to minimize tuition increases for undergraduates, the University of Minnesota is considering major tuition increases for professional and graduate students, including a 15.3% increase for 1L law students over last year. Most graduate students would see a 7.5% tuition hike. First-year medical students would suffer a 5.2% increase. In-state undergraduates are looking at a [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 22, 2009
Indiana’s Barnes & Thornburg, which recently expanded into Georgia and Ohio, is now gaining an office in Minnesota through the acquisition of the 22-attorney Parsinen Law Firm. The Minneapolis office, with 14 partners, will be Barnes & Thornburg’s 10th location. The deal has been in the works since 2008. The Parsinen Law Firm was founded in 1981. With [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Minneapolis, Minnesota-based Dorsey & Whitney has laid off 55 staff members, or 7% of the firm’s support staff. Seven of the firm’s offices were targeted, but 38 of the layoffs were at the Minneapolis headquarters. The firm saw flat revenues, with a small decrease in profits per partner, in 2008. Dorsey & Whitney LLP is a large law [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Four attorneys specializing in intellectual property have left Michael Best & Friedrich in Madison, Wisconsin to join Minneapolis’ Merchant & Gould. Attorneys Jeffrey S. Ward, Wendy M. Ward, Thomas P. Heneghan and Edward J. Pardon, who also is a physician, will open a Madison office of Merchant & Gould, and will focus on the generic pharmaceutical [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 23, 2009
San Francisco’s Littler Mendelson has added David J. Goldstein and Holly M. Robbins to its Minneapolis office. Both lawyers are formerly of Faegre & Benson. Shareholder David J. Goldstein has been counseling employers for over 20 years. He is a leading authority on affirmative action and governmental contract requirements. Goldstein received his JD from Harvard Law [...]
Continue reading...Friday, March 20, 2009
Rochester, Minnesota’s Dunlap & Seeger cut two attorneys and three staff members this week. The firm declined to name the people laid off. The stagnation of commercial transactions has slowed the work flow for the firm, and clients are holding off on discretionary legal projects. Dunlap & Seeger formed in 1993 when Dunlap, Finseth, Berndt & Sandberg merged [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 2, 2009
The legal job market in Minnesota seems to be getting tighter, as job ads in the state bar publication Bench & Bar are down 50 percent. Eric Caugh, the hiring partner at Zelle Hofmann in Minneapolis, told the Minneapolis Star Tribune that the economy’s downturn has resulted in a barrage of resumes from experienced associates. “We are [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Fredrikson and Byron, a Minneapolis-based law firm, is expanding its construction law services. The firm now has a brand new 25-attorney construction group who will provide services in the areas of drafting and negotiating contracts, design agreements, mechanic’s liens, construction mediation, arbitration, and litigation. For other areas, such as bankruptcy and labor issues, the group will [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 23, 2009
Maslon Edelman Borman & Brand has cut five administrative positions. There is no further information available about these layoffs. If you have any inside info you’d like to share, please send us a confidential tip. You’ll be glad you did! Founded in 1956, the Minneapolis, Minnesota-based firm employs more than 80 lawyers. The firm specializes in business [...]
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