Weil Gotshal, which in May laid off 79 staff, is shuttering its Austin, Texas office on December 1st, 2009. Partner Kevin Kudlac will be transferred to Houston. The office’s 16 associates and 11 staffers have been offered positions in the firm’s other offices. Those who turn down the relocation offer will get severance benefits. Weil, Gotshal & [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Davis Polk, home of stealth layoffs, will permanently close its office in Frankfurt, Germany in August. The office’s long-time resident partner, Patrick Kenadjian, is retiring at the end of the year. His successor, Harald Halbhuber, has decided to leave the firm as well. Much of the office’s work will be taken over by Davis Polk’s 31-lawyer London [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 21, 2009
Atlanta’s Kilpatrick Stockton has closed its London office. The firm has not released numbers of persons affected. The UK office had been shedding partners for years. Kilpatrick has several British law firms with which it is affiliated, and will work with these rather than maintaining it’s own UK footprint. Kilpatrick Stockton employs more than 500 attorneys globally, [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 27, 2009
(The misspelling in the title is intentional — read it aloud.) Partners at Chicago’s Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal voted today to shut the firm’s Charlotte, North Carolina office. The decision affects 11 lawyers and eight staff members. Sonnenschein chair Elliott Portnoy cited “local marketplace realities, the declining demand for legal services in the Charlotte legal and financial [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Bath & Swindon, UK-based Thring Townsend Lee & Pembertons has begun a 30-day period of consultation with employees across its offices. The firm plans to close branches in Cirencester and Marlborough, and move all staff from the two towns into its offices in Swindon. Managing partner Thomas Sheppard said the cutbacks were the “only option” to protect [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 13, 2009
The Bowling Green, Kentucky branch of the Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs law firm will close next month. The law office is scheduled to close March 27th, but if lawyers find alternative employment before that date, the office could close sooner, said managing partner Bill Hollander. The office employs about 10, including five lawyers. Local clients can still [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 3, 2009
New York’s Dewey & LeBoeuf is consolidating its Northern California offices, moving its San Francisco staff to its East Palo Alto location. Dewey & LeBoeuf has decided to centralize its Bay Area presence by relocating the lawyers and staff in its San Francisco office to its Silicon Valley office. Combining two locations that are in relatively [...]
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