Good morning everyone! Today is Monday, March 1, and here’s a quick look back at Friday’s news… Profits and revenue decline at Debevoise & Plimpton… Ogletree Deakins open a new office in Orange County, California… Donchess & Notinger claim in a court filing that a bankruptcy case is creating a financial hardship for the firm… Seyfarth Shaw releases details [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 26, 2010
A new survey conducted by “Legal Week” finds that lateral partner hiring by U.S. firms in London fell to its lowest level last year since 2004. Hiring trends at 37 of the biggest U.S. and trans-Atlantic firms show that just 59 lateral partner moves were made in 2009. Many firms were reluctant to expand with [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 20, 2009
According to the Hildebrandt International Peer Monitor Economic Index, the economic health of the legal industry has stopped declining for the first time since Q2 2008. The survey follows demand for legal services, attorney productivity, billing rates and expenses at Biglaw and midsize firms. Hildebrandt says the legal industry may be “stabilizing,” as the result of cost-cutting [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 30, 2009
Out of 92 firms surveyed, McKee Nelson did the best job of handling layoffs this year. According to The American Lawyer, the top five firms for appropriately and compassionately handling layoffs were McKee, Nutter McClennen, Michael Best, Stradley Ronon, and Patton Boggs. Associates at the firms surveys rated their employer for how well they handled the layoffs, [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Lawyers who speak more than one language are at an advantage in the job search, according to a survey by Robert Half Legal. Thirty-six percent of the 300 attorneys polled say they are seeing an increased need for counsel who are multilingual. Spanish and Chinese are the languages in greatest demand. The respondents are lawyers at the [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 3, 2009
A survey by the Dublin Solicitors Bar Association reports that 40% of new and low-level solicitors in the city have taken pay cuts averaging 15%; and 40% of incoming new solicitors have been laid off or lost their job offer. Furthermore, 40% (there’s that number again) are working without a contract; and 30% are considering changing [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 19, 2009
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Berwin Leighton Paisner, CMS Cameron McKenna and Norton Rose are the top three UK firms for lawyer satisfaction, according to a survey by Legal Week of 4,000 solicitors below partner level. The Legal Week 2009 Employee Satisfaction Survey says the three firms have the top lawyer satisfaction amongst the 25 largest UK law firms. The top [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 15, 2009
London’s The Times newspaper predicts that up to 10,000 UK lawyers could lose their jobs over the next two years, based on interviews with recruiters, consultants and senior law firm partners. That’s well over 10% of the island nation’s 83,000 privately employed solicitors. The United Kingdom’s legal sector (including non-lawyers) lost 16,700 jobs in 2008, to 279,800. [...]
Continue reading...Monday, April 13, 2009
According to a study by Legal Week Intelligence, the percentage of UK law students planning a non-legal career has fallen over the last two years. The global economic meltdown has students looking in the dwindling legal field, rather than in the disastrously impacted finance and banking sector. The number of British law students planning to eschew the [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, April 4, 2009
A new study by the Minority Corporate Council Association says biglaw firms must do more to ensure that minority, female and LGBT attorneys have the same career opportunities as their white male counterparts. The study, entitled “Sustaining Pathways To Diversity: The Next Steps in Understanding and Increasing Diversity & Inclusion in Large Law Firms,” is based [...]
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