A new survey of Australian law firm partners shows plummeting incomes and soaring stress levels. Mahlab Recruitment reports that partner salaries are down by over 5% in Sydney, and 4%…
Pinsent Masons, which is in the midst of a redundancy consultation, will outsource litigation work to a firm in South Africa. It is unclear if any US or UK jobs…
DLA Piper, which in April laid off eight associates in Dubai, is making another 22 positions redundant in its Middle East offices. Those affected are one partner, eight non-partner lawyers,…
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…
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…
Law firm Pannone has laid off 35 staff, and is asking employees to voluntarily work a four-day week. The layoffs affected administrative and support staff in the firm’s real estate…
White & Case has laid off 31 staff in Moscow, as part of the global redundancy program announced in March. Of the 31 affected, 18 were legal staff. White &…
Japanese industrial and financial conglomerate Nomura has cut up to 12 legal positions in London. The firm took over dissolved Lehman Brothers’ European and Middle East equities & investment banking…
The UK’s Allen & Overy announced in February a plan to lay off 450 jobs in a redundancy consultation. Well, today’s the day. Allen & Overy own Black Thursday sees…
Anglo-German law firm Taylor Wessing is asking for voluntary deferrals from its September 2009 and September 2010 incoming associate classes. The 750-attorney firm will pay a stipend of £7,500 ($10,872).…
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