Japan’s Federation of Bar Associations (Nihon Bengoshi Rengokai) has shaken up the island nation’s international legal community by declaring that all foreign...
Hope you’re interested in Canada this morning. Canada.com has a story about the frustrations faced by female lawyers, and a new women’s...
Alvin Davis, managing partner of Squire Sanders‘ Miami office, has told the National Law Journal that Miami employees laid off at the...
A JDJournal tipster says that Miami’s Greenberg Traurig is laying off “numerous” associates in New York City. Greenberg Traurig has been responding...
Above the Law, always the first to hear about law firm layoffs, informs the blogosphere that Philadelphia’s Blank Rome is kicking at...
Wildman Harrold Allen & Dixon has confirmed that the Chicago-based law firm has laid off “approximately” 10 attorneys. About half are non-equity...
The Project for Attorney Retention (PAR), an initiative of the Center for WorkLife Law at University of California Hastings College of the Law...
Kirkland & Ellis is edging some senior associates and income partners toward the door as part of its “regular annual evaluation process.”...
DLA Piper associates were greeted with this email on Friday: 2008 has indisputably been one of the most challenging economic periods in...
Frisco’s Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLC will freeze associate and consultant salaries in 2009. Associates were notified by the following e-mail, sent...
From Bruce MacEwen’s blog: An unspoken, and certainly uncelebrated, aspect of the law firm associate personnel model is built-in attrition. “Built-in” can...
“Multiple tipsters” tell Above the Law that O’Melveny & Myers associates in California and DC received voicemails today, confirming that first year...
