Alameda County, California’s new budget calls for layoffs and program cuts to close a $178 million funding deficit, including cutting 14 attorney...
California’s Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed cutting almost all state funding for the Hastings College of the Law, California’s oldest law...
Sacramento, California’s McDonough Holland & Allen has laid off four attorneys and 13 staff, and 18% cut in workforce. Most of those...
Rachel Folberg and Miles Locker, two former California state labor lawyers, have announced the founding of their own San Francisco law firm,...
Steptoe & Johnson has hired three lawyers from Los Angeles’ McNamara, Spira & Smith, including founder Michael McNamara. McNamara joins as a...
The Bay Area’s Fenwick & West, which in January laid off 36 staff and froze associate salaries, has laid off 15 associates...
Phoenix, Arizona-based Lewis & Roca has launched a new Mountain View, California law office, staffed with an intellectual property team from the...
Boston’s Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge has opened its first California office. Edwards Angell, which has 10 US offices, one in the...
Milwaukee’s Gonzalez Saggio, a minority-owned law firm, is opening offices in Phoenix, Arizona and Los Angeles, California. Gonzalez Saggio represents AIG, Merrill...
The Orange County, California office of New York’s United Law Group is hiring more than 70 attorneys, paralegals, processors and customer service...
California’s Allen Matkins has cut six associates and four staffers, according to online sources. In addition, first years’ salaries have been cut...
Los Angeles recently became the host city for the newest regional chapter of the Association of Litigation Support Professionals (ALSP). ALSP’s mission...