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A JDJournal tipster informs us that Atlanta’s King & Spalding, which laid off 37 lawyers and 85 staff in March, is “converting...
San Francisco’s Orrick, which laid off 300 employees in March, is abandoning lock-step compensation for associates. Under a lock-step scheme, associate salaries...
Ladas & Parry has hired Michael Cornman, Jay Bondell, and Meyer Gross, all former partners at New York intellectual property firm Schweitzer...
Nixon Peabody, which laid off 20 attorneys and 36 staff in February, is now cutting salaries. All associates, including incoming and summer...
Sources on the blawgosphere report that Seattle’s Davis Wright Tremaine has cut associate salaries by 5%. The cut affects all class years....
Yesterday Hogan & Hartson laid off 93 US support staff. Today we learn more about changes in compensation for associates who joined...
Berman DeValerio’s San Francisco office seeks to add two junior or senior associates to the 10-lawyer office. The associates should have experience...
Many law firms are using the economic meltdown as an excuse to end seniority-based pay for associates, adopting “merit-based” systems similar to...
Layoffs of legal support staffers have pushed the staffing ratios at some law firms to one support staffer for every four lawyers....
Southern California’s Irell & Manella, an intellectual property litigation and general business litigation firm, has announced pay raises for its associates. As...
Cleveland’s Thompson Hine will impose an across-the-board $17,500 base salary reduction on associates and other non-partner lawyers. Those lawyers will be able...
Adorno & Yoss is expanding its Atlanta office at a time when many national firms are instituting hiring freezes or layoffs. The...
