SJ Berwin is launching a new dedicated China and East Asia practice with an office in Hong Kong. The firm’s first office...
Jones Day opened an office in Dubai, United Arab Emirates this week. The office is the 32nd location of the biglaw firm,...
Freshfields will add at least 15 lawyers to its Munich office, including four partners who will relocate from Frankfurt. Yorck Jetter, Matthias-Gabriel...
Nixon Peabody has launched a new 23-lawyer South Asia practice. The practice will advise the firm’s South Asian clients on banking &...
DLA Piper announced today it is laying off 20 lawyers and 34 staff across its Asian offices, in response to the global...
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is set shutter its office in Bratislava, Slovakia, closing its only Central and Eastern European office outside Vienna and...
K&L Gates, Pittsburgh’s largest law firm, has opened a Singapore office, its 32nd location and its fifth in Asia. New partner Kevin...
Bloomberg reports that while law firms in the US and UK are shrinking, their offices in China expanding. Twenty-eight foreign firms have...
First LA’s Paul Hastings announced the layoff of 10 Atlanta associates. Now tipsters tell Above the Law that the firm is holding...
Am Law 100 firm Proskauer Rose’s profits per equity partner dropped 10% in 2008 to $1.4 million. Revenues increased marginally, by 1%,...
Norton Rose has offered trainees due to join the firm in 2009 and 2010 up to £10,000 to defer the start dates...
Japan’s Federation of Bar Associations (Nihon Bengoshi Rengokai) has shaken up the island nation’s international legal community by declaring that all foreign...
