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Mayer Brown laid off 33 lawyers Thursday because of the poor economic climate. The firm stated:
"Despite the current conditions in the worldwide financial markets, Mayer...
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Squire Sanders & Dempsey has become the latest US firm to shed staff, announcing a total of 30 associate and support staff layoffs today.
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Nov 19 2008
UK firm Nabarro is the latest firm to feel the effects of the downturn with the announcement that it is in consultation with 13 fee earners and nine business support...
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Nov 18 2008
Hammonds has confirmed that around 7% of its fee earners could face the axe as part of a redundancy consultation launched earlier this month. egal Week reports, that...
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Nov 13 2008
Eversheds has launched its second redundancy consultation this year in a move likely to affect 45 transactional fee earners.
The consultation focuses on the Eversheds M&A,...
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Nov 10 2008
Staff growth at America’s largest law firms slowed in 2008, according to a survey by the National Law Journal.
Major firms losing staff include Cadwalader (-91 lawyers)...
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Nov 07 2008
Almost a quarter of the UK’s top 50 law firms are considering making redundancies in the current financial year, with 10% saying cuts in the next six months are...
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Nov 03 2008
Of Britain’s leading law firms, only two, Lovells and CMS Cameron McKenna, are projecting double-digit revenue growth for the six months to October 31.
Expensive senior...
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Oct 28 2008
A record 40 per cent of graduates at a leading Indian law school are now taking up training contracts with international law firms such as Linklaters and Clifford Chance...
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Oct 27 2008
The total number of practicing lawyers in China has reached 140,000 and there are now over 14,000 law firms in China, according to news from the 7th National Lawyers...
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Oct 22 2008
In the midst of the global credit crunch, the UK continues to lure Australasian lawyers with the prospect of high quality work, good salaries and the life experience...
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Oct 20 2008
Two Chicago law firms fired attorneys this week. Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal layed off 24 lawyers out of 680, and Katten Muchin Rosenman 21 out of 650. And more...
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Oct 11 2008
At least 100 Heller Ehrman employees were laid off on Friday, without receiving the 60 days' wages required by federal law or accrued vacation due under California...
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Oct 10 2008
More women are taking top posts but are those roles as sought after as they once were?
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Oct 10 2008
The economic downturn has forced many law firms to downsize and cut spending. But a smaller group is on the prowl, looking to expand even as their earnings are falling...
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Sep 30 2008
Cobbetts is to cut up to 40 fee-earners in response to the worsening economic climate. The news comes just weeks after the firm announced that six lawyers were being...
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Sep 26 2008
UK firm Ward Hadaway will make up to 30 job redundancies, and has deferred the training contracts of two of its 12 trainees by a year, reports the Lawyer.
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Aug 20 2008
Law firm employees are working the equivalent of an extra day a week compared to the start of the year, with many firms failing to fill spaces left by departing staff...
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Aug 20 2008
Property and legal firms have slashed their graduate intake by up to 80 per cent as the credit crisis bites. The slowdown is also affecting graduate entry jobs in...
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Aug 19 2008
According to abovethelaw, at a party organised by Proskauer in Boston two summer associates said they would accept their offers only if two associates could finish the...
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Aug 12 2008
Up to 30 associates at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett have been asked to consider their positions as a result of a mid-year performance review, writes TheLawyer.
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Aug 12 2008
"A look at the numbers shows the cuts are quite small -- so far" says Leigh Jones, National Law Journal.
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Aug 03 2008
On Wednesday, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft announced that it was laying off 96 lawyers. These attorneys enter a challenging job market where the standard job search...
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Jul 31 2008
Law firms including Mayer Brown, Howrey; Winston & Strawn; McDermott, Will & Emery; Chadbourne & Parke; and several more in recent months have welcomed back attorneys from other...
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Jul 18 2008
Allen & Overy's corporate lawyers were sent an email this week reminding them that there is no such thing as a life outside the firm.
According to the email published by...
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Jul 16 2008
Newcastle-based Dickinson Dees is to lay off around 70 staff as the credit crunch begins to bite. The lawq firm has has started formal consultations with employees in...
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Jul 07 2008
The United States has become the world's first nation of 200 accredited law schools, as the American Bar Association gave provisional approval to two North Carolina...
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Jun 24 2008
Howard Kennedy has become the latest UK law firm to fall victim to the credit crunch with the launch of a redundancy program threatening up to 50 jobs.
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Jun 17 2008
The credit crunch has failed to have an impact on trainee retention rates, with early indications from a cross-section of leading firms such as Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer,...
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Jun 17 2008
Though experienced energy lawyers with portable business are widely courted, triple-crowned intellectual property lawyers — those with undergrad and doctorate...
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Jun 07 2008
The U.S. legal service sector lost 1,100 jobs in May, according to U.S. Department of Labor statistics released Friday.
Layoffs at large firms, along with...
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May 31 2008
Scottish giant McGrigors is set to make cuts in its London office with jobs at risk in the office as a result of the property slowdown, with fee earners and...
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May 31 2008
Legal employees are the happiest workers in the UK, according to a new survey of office professionals. Eighty-eight per cent of legal staff rated their happiness in...
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May 29 2008
According to a post on Above the Law, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal has recently laid off 37 lawyers, 75 staff members, and 12 nonlawyer timekeepers. Firm Chairman...
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May 20 2008
Dorsey & Whitney LLP is seeking candidates with one to four years of experience to join the firm's Patent department in the Seattle office.
Experience:
Qualified...
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May 14 2008
Britain’s largest law firms are reducing the number of junior lawyers they are hiring amid concerns that debt finance and corporate takeover work both in London and...
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May 12 2008
A fired associate contends the firm is laying off midlevels, but the firm says it's just conducting performance reviews.
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Apr 16 2008
Job seekers in the legal sector remain confident about securing new roles despite the continued threat of a global economic meltdown.
According to `Job Pulse’ a...
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Apr 11 2008
Many law firms and corporate legal departments expect to hire additional lawyers in the next 12 months, a new survey shows. Forty-five per cent of lawyers polled said...
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Mar 12 2008
For the second year in a row, 460-lawyer Chicago firm Jenner & Block has axed equity partners. At least 10 partners have been told to give up their equity and some have been...
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Mar 12 2008
Eleven per cent of The Times top 100 companies to work for in 2008 are law firms, four more than were on last year's list...
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Feb 06 2008
As the legal business has boomed in the City, the growth of US law firms seeking to expand their ‘franchises’ into London has grown, with a raft of major US...
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Jan 27 2008
Allen & Overy is attempting to usher in a new era of flexibility among its lawyers, partly to prepare for fluctuating market conditions, marking the strongest evidence yet that...
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Jan 11 2008
One of the nation's most profitable law firms announced it was laying off just under 5% of its staff due to a slowdown in some practice areas -- including those hurt...
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Sep 29 2007
Law firms have discovered YouTube. Actually, they have discovered that the law students they are trying to recruit as summer associates watch the popular Internet...
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