Since October, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips has laid off employees nationwide; 12 attorneys, 3 paralegals, and 32 administrative staff. The firm blamed the economic meltdown. Manatt’s Los Angeles headquarters has…
Connecticut’s Wiggin and Dana this week laid off 14 attorneys and 14 staff. In January, we reported that the worsening economy had affected Wiggin and Dana in the same way…
Layoffs of legal support staffers have pushed the staffing ratios at some law firms to one support staffer for every four lawyers. The layoffs are forcing associates to take on…
San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris laid off at least five staffers and two attorneys last week. Harris blamed the City by the Bay’s $500 million budget deficit. The staff…
Faegre & Benson has announced the layoffs of 58 staffers. With regret, we will reduce by 58 the number of Legal Administrative Assistants, Administrative Department Staff, and Paralegals in our…
Tipsters to Above the Law report that “at least 50″ lawyers and staffers have been laid off from Thompson Hine. The sources claim that 12 lawyers, 5 paralegals, and 29…
The Bay Area’s Fenwick & West laid off 36 staff yesterday, and is freezing associate salaries for the upcoming year. But unlike other major San Francisco area law firms, such…
Just a week after announcing mass layoffs, Linklaters is launching a formal redundancy consultation, with up to 120 lawyers and 150 business support staff in London expected to lose their…
Alvin Davis, managing partner of Squire Sanders‘ Miami office, has told the National Law Journal that Miami employees laid off at the firm include “a couple runners, some staffers and…
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