Walmart’s legal department announced plans to form an in-house pro bono program in which its attorneys, paralegals, and support staff will participate in legal aid projects in the Arkansas community.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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