Phoenix, Arizona’s Snell & Wilmer, which in May laid off between 30 and 40 staff members, has now cut associate salaries by...
The Portland office of Seattle’s Foster Pepper is striking out on its own. The new law firm, Roberts Kaplan LLP, keeps Foster...
Chicago’s Baker & McKenzie has hired a seven-lawyer energy law group from the crosstown office of Thompson & Knight. The team includes...
Winstead has added three attorneys from the San Antonio office of Bracewell & Giuliani. Frank Ruttenberg joins Winstead in San Antonio as...
Much Shelist has added three attorneys to its health care practice. Kevin Ryan joins from Epstein, Becker & Green as a Principal...
Since January, Greenberg Traurig has recruited 45 lateral partners, and plans to acquire more this year. In 2008, the firm hired 51...
![Press Slams Freshfields for Trainee Layoffs [Update 2]](https://www.jdjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/freshfields2_160x120-150x120.jpg "Press Slams Freshfields for Trainee Layoffs [Update 2]")
In May, London’s Freshfields announced that only 14 of its class of 48 trainees set to start this Fall would be retained....
![Berwin Leighton Top UK Firm for Lawyer Satisfaction [Correction]](https://www.jdjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/sjberwin_160x120-150x120.jpg "Berwin Leighton Top UK Firm for Lawyer Satisfaction [Correction]")
Berwin Leighton Paisner, CMS Cameron McKenna and Norton Rose are the top three UK firms for lawyer satisfaction, according to a survey...
The Judicial Conference, the policymaking arm of the US Federal Courts, is urging Congress to fill 13 new permanent bankruptcy judgeships in...
Most students receiving financial aid from Harvard Law School are required to work for 10 weeks over the summer, the traditional length...
Morgan Lewis has brought on five partners and six associates from Bingham McCutchen’s banking & leveraged finance group, including a former co-chair...
We have been reporting on the saga of Clifford Chance’s US litigation practice. Group head Mark Kirsch jumped ship to Gibson Dunn,...
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