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Debevoise & Plimpton Hires Partners from Goodwin Procter

Debevoise & Plimpton has hired two banking partners away from Goodwin Procter. Gregory Lyons joins Debevoise & Plimpton as a…

Florida's Holland & Knight is cutting salaries for associates and senior counsel. The firm says the cuts average 7% across…

Recent laterals and layoffs in the legal sector: James Donato joins Shearman & Sterling's San Francisco office as a partner.…

Ropes & Gray, which in July deferred its 2009 summer associates to “no earlier than January 2011," is offering those…

Shearman & Sterling has hired on three new partners. Antitrust litigator Edward B. Schwartz, formerly a Shearman & Sterling associate,…

DLA Piper is deferring its current summer associates to January 2011 at least, and will offer a voluntary deferral to…

Citigroup, whose "CitiSelect" initiative operates much like a typical Biglaw summer associates program, has canceled the program for 2010, and…

Atlanta’s Morris Manning, which recently canceled its 2010 Summer Associate Program, is slashing salaries based on how much work a…

Three Detroit lawyers have founded Hafeez & Youssef, a new firm to serve the city's Muslim community. Managing Partner Tariq…

West Palm Beach, Florida's McDonald Hopkins has added three attorneys to its roster. Howard K. Coates, Jr. joins as a…

Recent laterals and layoffs in the legal sector: Gary Hnath (not a typo) joins Mayer Brown as a partner from…

Arnstein & Lehr has brought on two associates in Chicago. Louis J. Gale will focus on construction litigation. He was…