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• DAC Beachcroft allies with Canadian firm with a view to merging

  May 18 2012 DAC Beachcroft has entered into a formal association with Canadian firm McCague Borlack, with a long-term plan to fully merge the two firms. Initially, the deal... more

• Tough going in Scotland: redundancies, defections and shutters

  May 09 2012 Scottish firm Maclay Murray & Spens has initiated a redundancy consultation in its Private Client department, with four support staff roles and two legal roles at... more

• Herbert Smith set to lay off 51 in London

  Apr 30 2012 Herbert Smith has announced plans to lay off 51 people London, and has commenced a 30 day consultation to carry out the cuts. The biggest cuts will take place in the... more

• Salans set to close down its Beijing office

  Apr 16 2012 Salans is set to shutter its Beijing office after the partnership voted to close the office in favor of a more intense focus on Shanghai. The Beijing office has... more

• Kennedys' accounts show rapid expansion in 2010-11

  Apr 16 2012 UK firm Kennedys has increased its equity partnership by 30 per cent in 2010-11, from 50 to 65 partners. In the same period, 42 fee earners were added to the firm’s... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf set to make layoffs

  Mar 07 2012 Dewey & LeBoeuf will be conducting layoffs and other cost-cutting measures, according to firm-wide memo from Chairman Steven H. Davis. The memo came after the... more

• Litigation support services in high demand

  Feb 07 2012 A new survey put together by New York-based headhunter and consultancy The Cowen Group has attempted to evaluate the ratio of salaries to revenue within law firms,... more

• DWF and Cobbetts end merger talks

  Feb 06 2012 After months of negotiations, the proposed merger between DWF and Cobbetts has fallen in a heap. Word go out last November that the firms were considering joining up,... more

• NY court system suffers from budget cuts

  Feb 02 2012 The New York court system is suffering the effects of the $170 million in budget cuts made in the 2011-12 period, with widespread court delays, shortages of... more

• US Legal Aid to take another funding cut

  Jan 27 2012 Legal Aid in the US is set to take yet another hit, as a bill passed last November to slash federal funding for civil legal assistance to the poor by about 14% — from... more

• Mergers provide firms with the chance to weed out underperformers

  Jan 27 2012 Merger agreements are providing law firms with a convenient way to get rid of underperforming partners, says Legal recruiter Larry Watanabe of Watanabe & Nason.... more

• Salans finds a new alliance in Turkey

  Jan 16 2012 Salans is expanding into Turkey after making an alliance deal with local firm Balcioglu Selcuk Akman Keki. Salans has already been in Turkey for eight years, allied... more

• One in three firms and corporate counsel plan to add staff in first quarter of 2012

  Dec 31 2011 Around one third of law firms and corporate counsel in the US plan to add legal staff in the first quarter of 2012, according to the quarterly Robert Half Legal Hiring... more

• Legal support staff get a rough deal at bonus time

  Dec 22 2011 Above the Law has been keeping a close eye on announcements regarding annual bonuses from large law firms. Their reporting has noted that the size of this year’s... more

• Bird & Bird increases turnover and headcount

  Dec 21 2011 Bird & Bird has increased its fee-earner headcount by three per cent this year, from 654 to 673. The growth represents one of only a few cases of firms adding to... more

• Scottish legal market looking up

  Dec 18 2011 There has been significant improvement in the Scottish legal market, according to a new survey of the country’s top firms conducted by industry advisors PKF. The... more

• Field Fisher Waterhouse declines to renew contracts, considers redundancies

  Nov 30 2011 The public and regulatory practice group at Field Fisher Waterhouse is likely to make four associates redundant, with a further 13 solicitors and paralegals likely to... more

• Australian firm Allens Arthur Robinson launches in Mongolia

  Nov 14 2011 Australian law firm Allens Arthur Robinson has launched an office in Mongolia. The firm does not plan to have a permanent legal staff on site, and will instead rotate... more

• Goodwin Procter and Fulbright & Jaworski announce staff layoffs

  Nov 02 2011 Some law firms are still in cost cutting mode, with many making significant staff layoffs and outsourcing legal support services. Since August O’Melveny & Myers... more

• US firm Pillsbury Winthrop shifts support services across the country

  Oct 25 2011 Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman has announced that it will outsource legal support services to its very own Professional Services Center in Nashville Tennesee. The... more

• Freshfields suspends staff over irregularities in supplier arrangements

  Jul 19 2011 Freshfields has suspended a number of staff from the firm's IT department pending an investigation into a number of irregularities with supplier agreements. A... more

• Indian offshore firm Pangea3 opens US service delivery office

  Jun 07 2011 Mumbai-headquartered Pangea3 – owned by Thompson Reuters - has opened its first US-based service delivery office in Dallas, Texas. The office will allow the company to... more

• Howrey partners vote to dissolve firm

  Mar 10 2011 Howrey’s partners have voted to dissolve the partnership, a decision that will take effect on 15 March 2011 and put the 55 year old firm out of its misery. The... more

• Best and worst NQ retention rates for UK firms

  Jan 24 2011 When firms miscalculate their staffing needs or wish to cut costs, it is often the newly qualified lawyers – those at the end of their trainee program – that suffer... more

• Akin Gump follows Cravath's bonus scale, delays payment until 2011

  Dec 07 2010 Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has announced its associate bonuses, adopting the Cravath, Swaine & Moore scale, at least in New York. The Bonuses to be paid are as... more

• UK firm CMS Cameron McKenna outsources legal support services

  Nov 23 2010 CMS Cameron McKenna's partners have approved plans to outsource legal support services to Integreon. The plan provides that Integreon set up operations within the... more

• Eversheds rewards staff for business ideas

  May 31 2010 Eversheds has announced the launch of a new scheme to generate business development ideas from within the staff ranks. The firm is offering to award £500 for the best... more

• Record profits without axing staff: Cravath Swaine & Moore and Davis Polk & Wardwell

  Mar 22 2010 A number of firms posted record profit per partner figures in 2009, despite a difficult economic climate. And while many of them boosted profits by paring back their... more

• Thirty staff laid off at Dewey & LeBoeuf

  Mar 10 2010 While numbers of lawyers being laid off seems to have slowed down in recent months, some employees are still losing their jobs as firms adjust to the new economic... more

• Denton Wilde to cut up to 29 more jobs

  Oct 13 2009 Denton Wilde Sapte has begun a second redundancy consultation, with 29 support and secretarial positions at risk. The bulk of the cuts is expected to affect the London... more

• Weil Gotshal cuts staff despite strong results

  Jun 02 2009 Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, which has about 43 lawyers in Boston and 1,215 lawyers firm-wide, has laid off 79 non-legal staff across all of its U.S. offices. The... more

• Orrick lays off 100 associates, 200 staff

  Mar 04 2009 Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP has announced that it is laying off 100 lawyers and 200 staff members. The firm, which has more than 1,100 lawyers in 21 offices... more

• Latham & Watkins cuts 190 associates, 250 staff

  Feb 27 2009 Latham Watkins has cut 440 employees. 190 associates - 12 per cent of the firm's total associate headcount - and 250 staff will be layed off. The cuts represent the... more

• Holland & Knight lays off 70 lawyers and 173 staff

  Feb 13 2009 According to the WSJ Law Blog, Holland & Knight has fired 70 lawyers and 173 staff. “Today, we began restructuring our operations to better meet the needs of our... more

• Hogan & Hartson asks 240 staffers to leave voluntarily

  Feb 10 2009 Washington-based law firm Hogan & Hartson offered buyouts to about 240 of its legal secretaries and word processors. While layoffs are currently common at law... more

• Dechert lays off 72 staff members

  Dec 17 2008 Philadelphia-based Dechert laid off 72 staff members in the US. That amounts to about 12.5 percent of the 1,045-attorney international law firm's 570 administrative... more

• Proskauer Rose lays off 35 associates, 25 staff

  Dec 05 2008 Proskauer Rose LLP announced yesterday that it is laying off 35 associates across its offices. In addition, the firm is laying off approximately 25 members of its... more

• Reed Smith to cut 130 jobs, including 11 associate jobs in London

  Dec 04 2008 Reed Smith LLP said it has cut 115 support positions across its offices in the United States due to the economic slowdown. Additionally, the firm is beginning... more

• Field Fisher in redundancy talks with 175 staff

  Nov 22 2008 Field Fisher Waterhouse has launched a redundancy consultation with 175 support staff in London. At least 40 positions are under threat. more

• Orrick lays off 40 attorneys, 35 staff

  Nov 13 2008 Only two days after White & Case said that it will lay off 70 attorneys, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, a firm that traces its roots to San Francisco, announced that... more

• Shearman, Akin Gump, Fulbright among US firms reducing staff

  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... more

• Job cuts at O'Melveny & Myers

  Oct 28 2008 O'Melveny & Myers has laid off five associates in its Los Angeles office, according to the blog Above the Law. The National Law Journal reports that O'Melveny is... more

• Simmons & Simmons axes eight lawyers

  Oct 21 2008 Simmons & Simmons has made eight lawyers and 19 service staff redundant ­following a three-year review of its wage bill... more

• Law firms cut attorneys as economy sours

  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... more

• Eversheds to axe 33 lawyers plus staff; Norwich to close

  Sep 05 2008 Eversheds is set to make as many as 33 lawyers across the firm plus related support staff redundant, and is closing its Norwich office in response to the downturn in... more

• Bingham McCutchen cuts staff

  Jul 31 2008 Ten members of Bingham McCutchen's Hartford office’s administrative staff were let go this week. Bingham McCuthen, which has over 250 lawyers in Boston, attributed the... more

• Dickinson Dees to axe 70 staff

  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... more

• Reed Smith lets 50 secretaries go, but law firm continues to grow

  Jun 28 2008 The global law firm Reed Smith laid off 50 legal secretaries over the past few months, almost half of them based in Pittsburgh. At the same time, it has added 20... more

• US Law Firms See More Layoffs, Departures of Staff and Associates

  Jun 05 2008 As one law firm leader put it, 2008 is a good time to look at current staffing issues, and that has resulted in a few firms shedding either staff or associates.... more