![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....
Maclay Murray & Spens, which in April laid off 38 lawyers and staff, is only keeping on four of its 31 qualifying...
London’s Freshfields will only hire 70% of its September 2009 trainees. Fourteen of the class of 48 trainees set to start this...
Atlanta-based Morris, Manning & Martin has rescinded offers to six of its incoming first-year associates, and canceled this year’s summer associate program....
Washington DC-based intellectual property firm Sughrue Mion has fired a third of its incoming first year class, and canceled its 2009 summer...
