Los Angeles-based O’Melveny & Myers announced that profits per partner were down more than 7% to $1.5 million. Gross revenues for 2008...
Today Philadelphia’s Dechert is laying off 19 attorneys due to a “reduction in demand.” The layoffs are just the latest cuts at...
A tipster to Above the Law reports that major layoffs are taking place today at Bryan Cave. The firm had a meeting,...
Perkins Coie has filed a breach of contract suit against former intellectual property associate David Xue. According to court documents, Xue left...
The National Law Journal reports that public universities and law schools are making their faculty and staff take unpaid time off to...
Happy Birthday, Charles Darwin! This morning’s top stories: Japan’s Federation of Bar Associations has shaken up the island nation’s international legal community...
Minneapolis intellectual-property law firm Merchant & Gould is cutting 33 jobs, or 13% of its work force, citing the economic meltdown. The...
Belfast, UK-based L’Estrange and Brett has made two solicitors and three secretaries redundant. One of the city’s oldest and largest law firms,...
Crowell & Moring has added two new hires to its International Dispute Resolution Group. Pieter Bekker, formerly of McDermott Will & Emery,...
Will judges, upset about recent pay freezes, start fleeing the bench for higher-paying law firm jobs? Texas State District Judge Len Wade...
New York City’s Brooklyn Law School has announced it will freeze faculty salaries, in order to keep 2009 tuition increases low. Dean...
Tipsters are telling Above the Law that dissolving law firm Morgan & Finnegan is unable to cover cheques issued to departing employees...
