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Jersey Wolf Block Office to Become Brach Eichler

Last month we reported that Wolf Block’s 67-lawyer Roseland, New Jersey location would try to keep the office intact, as…

DLA Piper is deferring start dates for incoming associates to January, 2010. All deferred associates will get a $10,000 stipend…

While The District of Columbia Bar considers deferring due payments for unemployed lawyers, it has voted to raise annual dues…

Boston’s Goodwin Procter is deferring start dates for 60 members of its 125-person incoming associate class. Half will be pushed…

Womble Carlyle has laid off an undisclosed number employees. At least 20 associates and staff have been let go. In…

Northwestern University Law School will allow deferred graduates to postpone their monthly student loan payments until they start working. The…

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

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

McKenna Long & Aldridge is cutting starting salaries for entering first-year associates by $20,000. In 2007, McKenna moved to a…

Jenner & Block has opened its first office in California. Rick Richmond, a former partner from the Los Angeles office…

WilmerHale is deferring start dates for its 2009 associate class. Some associates will be deferred to January 20th, 2010, and…

New York's Skadden is offering all its associates, about 1,300 worldwide, the extraordinary option of taking one-third of their base…