Above the Law reports that Phillie’s Dechert, which recently announced that its profits and revenues are down, is laying off staff attorneys...
Tipsters are telling blawg Above the Law that major layoffs are going down at Latham & Watkins this week. We’re hearing that...
Sheppard Mullin, which instituted salary freezes in January, now admits it has been shedding attorneys since the beginning of 2009. At yesterday’s...
First LA’s Paul Hastings announced the layoff of 10 Atlanta associates. Now tipsters tell Above the Law that the firm is holding...
As we reported last week (and in case you didn’t overhear it yourself on the train), Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman is laying...
Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg, a Chicago-based law firm with about 200 lawyers, cut nearly 10% of its attorneys. The firm eliminated 19...
Miami’s Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod has cut some attorney and staff positions. The firm, founded in 1998, declined to say...
Am Law 100 firm Proskauer Rose’s profits per equity partner dropped 10% in 2008 to $1.4 million. Revenues increased marginally, by 1%,...
Tipsters tell Above the Law that at least five lawyers were laid off from Kaye Scholer on Friday, including some first- and...
Last week we reported that Allen & Overy, the UK’s fourth-biggest law firm by revenue, would cut as many as 150 lawyers,...
Cleveland’s Thompson Hine will impose an across-the-board $17,500 base salary reduction on associates and other non-partner lawyers. Those lawyers will be able...
Roetzel & Andress has “regretfully released” 13 associates and 18 non-lawyers, firm President Jeffrey Casto has announced. Three of the lawyers were...