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Allen & Overy Lays Off 47 Partners, 200 Associates, 200 Staff

The UK’s Allen & Overy announced in February a plan to lay off 450 jobs in a redundancy consultation. Well,…

Linklaters is cutting pay for starting lawyers, and shrinking salary increases. The firm will pay new lawyers £61,500 ($91,300), down…

SJ Berwin, which announced a new Hong Kong office in March, will open an office in Dubai later this year.…

Herbert Smith will launch a new office in Madrid, Spain with a group from Linklaters . Alvaro Sáinz, Miguel Riaño…

Three capital markets partners in Clifford Chance's Milan, Italy office are leaving to set up shop on their own. Paolo…

Eversheds has formalized an alliance with Saudi Arabia's Hani Qurashi. The 20-lawyer firm in the Middle Eastern dictatorship has offices…

Allen & Overy plans to outsource more of its "back office" work, particularly due diligence and litigation discovery, to other…

Rather than lay off under-productive attorneys, New Zealand law firm Russell McVeagh is encouraging its lawyers to increase their pro…

Conyers Dill & Pearman, which just announced it is opening an office in Brazil, has hired three associates for its…

Los Angeles' Sheppard Mullin has recently hired three new attorneys in Los Angeles and China. This week the firm announced…

Herbert Smith announced today it has begun a redundancy consultation at its London HQ, targeting 84 positions. The redundancies target…

John D. Ashcroft, the former Missouri governor, US attorney general, senator and state attorney general, will announce this week plans…