Blawgs are reporting that Cravath has been holding stealth layoffs of associates since December 2008, letting 25 lawyers go for “performance” reasons. According to online sources, more layoffs are expected…
A JDJournal tipster says he or she is the latest victim of stealth layoffs at intellectual property firm Sughrue Mion: I am, perhaps, the latest casualty of Sughrue. It is…
A JDJournal tipster says that Dykema has laid off at least 20 lawyers and 30 staff since November. This was not reported to the media. The tipster reports plans to…
Davis Polk, home of stealth layoffs, will permanently close its office in Frankfurt, Germany in August. The office’s long-time resident partner, Patrick Kenadjian, is retiring at the end of the…
WilmerHale has informed an undisclosed number of associates and counsel that they will lose their jobs this Fall. The firm stresses that these are not “layoffs,” although rational persons are…
Ropes & Gray, which deferred start dates in March, has let go between 30 and 40 associates. Blawgs are reporting that the layoffs include eight two first year associates. If…
The blawgosphere is abuzz with rumors that Willkie Farr has been conducting stealth layoffs, and that a big round of public layoffs, affecting 10% of the workforce, may be on…
A JDJournal tipster informs us that Holme Roberts & Owen laid off between 10 and 15 associates in mid-April. According to the tipster: Several first year and second year associates…
In March, Atlanta’s Troutman Sanders said layoffs were likely. Now legal industry news sites have noticed that 28 names have mysteriously disappeared from the firm’s roster of attorneys on its…
Various blawgs report that stealth layoffs are underway at Atlanta’s Alston & Bird. The firings seem to be taking place across all practices, but are hitting real estate especially hard.…
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