Kaye Scholer is cutting pay for associates who bill under 1,600 hours this year. First- and second-years who aren’t on track to...
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Pillsbury, which offered associates $60,000 to leave the firm, is imposing associate salary reductions based on hours. Salaries are being cut between...
According to the Hildebrandt International Peer Monitor Index, demand for legal services dropped by more than 8% compared to Q1 2008, dropping...
Crowell & Moring has told as many as 20 lawyers across the firm that their salaries will be reduced in light of...
Pillsbury, which fired 155 in March, is hiring lawyers for its trusts & estates practice. Palo Alto-based partner Jennifer McCall, head of...
Yesterday Hogan & Hartson laid off 93 US support staff. Today we learn more about changes in compensation for associates who joined...
Washington, DC-based Patton Boggs is adopting a new compensation plan for partners, retooling a long-held “eat-what-you-kill” system to reward partner cooperation and...
Stanford Law School has launched the Stanford Center on the Legal Profession, which will focus on professional responsibility, leadership development and quality...
Washington DC law firm and lobbying group Arent Fox will freeze associate base compensation at the current 2008 rates for 2009. The...
Philadelphia’s Morgan Lewis & Bockius will adopt a merit-based bonus system for associates in 2009. The firm is doing away with its...
Evan R. Chesler, a Presiding Partner at New York’s Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, has made a bold suggestion in January’s Forbes...
An interesting story at the DC Examiner, about the results of a study from the National Association for Law Placement: Female partners in...
