A group of seven attorneys, including three partners, from Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney will join the Wilmington, Delaware office of Saul Ewing. William E. Manning, Teresa K.D. Currier and Richard A. Forsten are joining Saul Ewing as partners, while James D. Taylor joins as Special Counsel. Joining the firm as associates are Jennifer Morgan Becnel-Guzzo, Michael [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Online sources say that Jones Day has announced a salary freeze affecting all support personnel and staff across the firm, through at least June 2010. In addition, staff will get no bonuses through 2009. Corporate Board Member magazine named Jones Day the second best corporate law firm. Earlier this year, the firm opened new offices in Dubai [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, May 16, 2009
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 and corporate practices. Founded in 1852, Manchester, UK’s Pannone LLP is a full service law firm with 380 solicitors, 92 partners and a total staff of 780, [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 3, 2009
According to rumors on the Tubes (it’s not a truck!), Shearman & Sterling is laying off administrative staff today. Lawyers are apparently unaffected. An official announcement is expected tomorrow. If you know anything about layoffs at Shearman & Sterling, please send us a confidential tip! Two weeks ago, Shearman & Sterling reported a 4.9% drop in revenues to [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 2, 2009
Layoffs of legal support staffers have pushed the staffing ratios at some law firms to one support staffer for every four lawyers. The layoffs are forcing associates to take on more legal research and other tasks once handled by paralegals and law librarians. David Sturgess, managing partner of Updike, Kelly & Spellacy in Hartford, said his firm [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 27, 2009
Chicago’s Schiff Hardin cut some of its administrative staff this week, as a result of “increased technological efficiencies.” Schiff Hardin dismissed 11 “unassigned floating secretaries” who were no longer needed at the firm, because there was not work for them to do as a result of “technological advancements,” said spokesperson David Milberg. The firm, with 432 non-lawyer [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 24, 2009
The number of legal secretaries and other support staff that have been laid off at firms in recent months is in the hundreds. Most first cite the struggling economy as the main reason for the layoffs. Regardless of the circumstances, the layoffs suggest a growing trend of fewer and fewer legal secretaries employed by large [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 2, 2009
Olswang has begun a redundancy consultation targeted at 8% of the firm’s 618-strong UK workforce. The firm announced today that up to 42 staff in the UK will be affected by the cuts, with salaried partners, fee earners and support staff all included in the consultation. The firm declined to comment on how many fee earner positions [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 16, 2009
Philly’s Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll has laid off secretarial and administrative staff personnel, the second round of staff cuts at the firm since the summer. Rumors suggest a significant number of staff cuts at Ballard Spahr, with attorneys being affected as well in the firm’s Los Angeles office. Sources put the number of layoffs between [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 11, 2008
On Heller Highwater blog, a “a support site for the professional support staff of a global law firm in turmoil”: I’m not sure whether this [one] just slipped by us and the rest of the media or what. But back on October 29, 2008, MEPT St. Matthews LLC – the landlord of Heller’s DC office [...]
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