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Winston & Strawn Defers Start Dates

According to online sources, Winston & Strawn has pushed back 2009 incoming associate start dates to January 19th, 2010. Deferred…

Miami-based Akerman Senterfitt has brought a three-attorney group into its West Palm Beach labor & employment practice. David Spector and…

Last week we reported that Indianapolis' Barnes & Thornburg had opened an eighth office, in Atlanta, Georgia. This week the…

London's Linklaters has pushed back its trainee start dates for September 2009 and March 2010, offering future trainees £10,000 to…

Portland, Maine's Pierce Atwood, which laid off 21 in February, has announced a new Providence, Rhode Island office. The new…

Denver's 200-attorney Brownstein Hyatt has laid off 15 attorneys and 22 staff. Partners consulted with associates to determine a balance…

Seattle-based law firm Williams Kastner has announced that all non-management and non-lawyer employees will receive a special compensation check as…

The Podesta Group has added at least six principals this year. Podesta saw a 44% rise in gross lobbying revenue…

Name partner Chris P. Jayson, and three other lawyers from Tampa Bay, Florida's Cohen Jayson & Foster, have left the…

Pillsbury, which fired 155 in March, is hiring lawyers for its trusts & estates practice. Palo Alto-based partner Jennifer McCall,…

Chicago's Chapman and Cutler is taking steps to reduce costs, including laying off an undisclosed number of "underperforming" lawyers, and…

Richmond, Virginia's Hunton & Williams posted $668 million in gross revenue in the fiscal year that ended March 31st, a…