Dentons, which in March laid off 37 lawyers and 39 staff, will only hire on half of their 2009 trainees. The firm says only 17 of its 31 September 2009 qualifying trainees in the UK and Middle East will be offered positions. Two of the offers will be client secondments. All three trainees in Turkey and Russia [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 14, 2009
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Dechert announced today that it has lured away from Chadbourne & Parke five partners to found a Moscow office. The team is headed by Chadbourne’s Laura Brank, formerly the firm’s managing partner for Moscow and St. Petersburg. Moscow will be Dechert’s ninth foreign office. In 2008, the firm launched two offices in China. The firm laid off 63 [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, May 3, 2009
As international law firms cut back on their Moscow footprints, Denton Wilde Sapte has confirmed it laid off both lawyers and support staff at the Russian capital. The firm has not released any details or numbers. In March, Dentons laid off 37 lawyers and 39 staff in the UK. If you know anything about layoffs at Denton Wilde [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, May 3, 2009
Simmons & Simmons has laid off three three corporate & finance associates, and two support staff, from its Moscow office. Also, four lawyers now based out of Moscow will be recalled to London, including partner Isabella Roberts. Other international firms are cutting back in Moscow, most notably White & Case, which just laid off 31 staff. Simmons & [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 1, 2009
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 & Case LLP is a leading global law firm with 38 offices in 25 countries. It was founded in New York in 1901. The American Lawyer ranked the [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 30, 2009
Clifford Chance will cut 20% of its lawyer head count in its Moscow office in the current financial year, with the firm’s Middle East offices also set for potential layoffs. In Moscow, Clifford Chance has laid off six lawyers through individual consultations, with the office also losing another 24 through attrition over the same period. There [...]
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