Addleshaw Goddard, one of Britain’s largest firms, which announced in February it would cut 19 partners, has now announced the redundancies of 85 staff positions. The layoffs target the firm’s Manchester office, and affect the business services division, including business development, human resources, information technology, finance, and secretarial. No lawyers are being let go at this time, [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Kansas City’s Stinson Morrison Hecker let 30 people go on Monday. No attorneys were affected. “We were going to do this over a period of time, but we decided that with the economy the way it is, there was no reason to prolong it,” said managing partner Mark Foster. Foster said those laid off included secretaries, record clerks [...]
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Yesterday we reported on web rumors that New York’s Shearman & Sterling would lay off staffers. Today the firm confirmed that 60 support staff positions have been eliminated. In the US, approximately 60 secretaries and other administrative personnel from various groups, including Finance, GTS, HR, Marketing, and Office Services, will be leaving the firm today. In London, [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 12, 2009
According to the Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, the legal services industry in the United States shed some 7,000 jobs between December 2007 and December 2008. The numbers include lawyers, paralegals, public relations specialists, secretaries and other positions; and reflect layoffs by firms nationwide over the last few months, and the dissolutions of Am Law 100 firms [...]
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