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Walmart’s Slogan, “Save Money, Live Better” Now Extends to Legal Services

Walmart’s Slogan, “Save Money, Live Better” Now Extends to Legal Services

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.…

Saul Ewing Hires Buchanan Ingersoll Team

Saul Ewing Hires Buchanan Ingersoll Team

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…

Jones Day Freezes Support Staff Salaries

Jones Day Freezes Support Staff Salaries

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…

Pannone Lays Off 35 Staff, Goes to 4-Day Week

Pannone Lays Off 35 Staff, Goes to 4-Day Week

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…

Rumor: Shearman & Sterling Laying Off Support Staff

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…

Associates Have to Make Do With Fewer Staffers

Associates Have to Make Do With Fewer Staffers

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…

Schiff Hardin Lays Off Support Staff

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…

Firms Using Fewer Legal Secretaries And Support Staff

Firms Using Fewer Legal Secretaries And Support Staff

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…

Olswang to Lay Off 8% of UK Lawyers, Staff

Olswang to Lay Off 8% of UK Lawyers, Staff

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…

Ballard Spahr Latest to Cut Staff

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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