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salary reductions

Davis Wright Cuts Associate Salaries

Sources on the blawgosphere report that Seattle's Davis Wright Tremaine has cut associate salaries by 5%. The cut affects all…

Greenberg Traurig Decimates New Associate Salaries

Greenberg Traurig is cutting the salaries of its summer and first year associates by 10%. First year associate start dates…

Chapman and Cutler Laying Off ‘Underperformers’

Chicago's Chapman and Cutler is taking steps to reduce costs, including laying off an undisclosed number of "underperforming" lawyers, and…

Update: Hogan & Hartson Reduces Pay for Certain First-Year Associates

Yesterday Hogan & Hartson laid off 93 US support staff. Today we learn more about changes in compensation for associates…

DLA Piper Cutting US Partner Pay 11.5%

DLA Piper has informed its US partners that it will reduce their pay by 11.5% in 2009. "Strong performers" will…

Dewey & LeBoeuf Partners Hit with Salary Cuts

Dewey & LeBoeuf announced that 66 partners of its 350 partners have seen pay cuts in the last 15 months.…

Norton Rose Adopting 4-Day Week

Norton Rose may implement flexible hours scheme to help avoid job cuts. For one year, Norton Rose employees (including partners)…

McGuireWoods Cuts First-Years’ Salaries by 10%

McGuireWoods chairman Richard Cullen left a voicemail to his attorneys yesterday evening, announcing that first year salaries will be cut…

Much Shelist to Cut Partner, Associate Pay

Chicago's Much Shelist Denenberg Ament & Rubenstein, a business-law firm with about 80 attorneys, will impose a 10% pay cut…

Update: Thompson Hine Cuts Positions, Pay

Cleveland's Thompson Hine will impose an across-the-board $17,500 base salary reduction on associates and other non-partner lawyers. Those lawyers will…