This morning’s top stories:
Bankrupt law firm Heller Ehrman paid out more than $7 million to 35 departing or retiring partners in 2008…
A survey of 2008 law firm recruiting found that firms offered fewer summer associate positions to current 2Ls for 2009, and fewer 2008 summer associates received full-time job offers…
Bloomberg reports that while law firms in the US and UK are shrinking, their offices in China are expanding. Twenty-eight foreign firms have opened offices in mainland China since September 2006…
The Am Law 100’s Stroock & Stroock & Lavan saw profits per partner drop by 8.6%, to $1,185,000 last year…
Law firm Dwyer & Collora has hired Judge Christopher J. Armstrong, the former chief justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court…