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Simpson Thacher & Bartlett is holding widespread, unannounced layoffs at its New York City headquarters, causing considerable confusion and consternation for lawyers and staff there. On Friday evening, Simpson Thacher…
June 16, 20097 CommentsRead More
The New York Law Journal has published its annual survey of summer class sizes at New York Biglaw firms. Latham & Watkins had the largest cut in class size, of…
June 1, 2009No CommentRead More
On April 30th we reported that Mark Levy, a partner at Kilpatrick Stockton, committed suicide at the firm’s DC office. Levy had been asked to leave the firm a day…
May 5, 20092 CommentsRead More
According to a report released by the San Francisco-based Project for Attorney Retention, which surveyed 100 American law firms, only 23 of those firms had partnership classes consisting of at…
February 24, 2009No CommentRead More
New York’s Simpson Thacher & Bartlett is sending some of its associates to year-long stints at nonprofit organizations. The firm has extended the duration of its public interest fellowships from…
February 20, 2009No CommentRead More
An insurance company’s unusual “pyramid scheme” has raised siginificant funds for global human rights organizations. The legal department at Swiss insurance conglomerate ACE Limited created a novel program that leveraged…
January 2, 2009No CommentRead More
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