Kansas City’s Stinson Morrison Hecker let 30 people go on Monday. No attorneys were affected. “We were going to do this over...
Connecticut’s Wiggin and Dana this week laid off 14 attorneys and 14 staff. In January, we reported that the worsening economy had...
Dallas’ Haynes and Boone yesterday laid off one associate, one of counsel and one staff in their New York City office. The...
Last week we reported on rumors that Dewey & LeBoeuf would decrease its workforce. Legal industry rumors seem to be pretty reliable!...
Yesterday we reported on web rumors that New York’s Shearman & Sterling would lay off staffers. Today the firm confirmed that 60...
O’Melveny & Myers today announced the layoffs of 10% of attorneys and 10% of staff. About 190 people will be affected. From...
Clifford Chance has announced further cuts to its London office, with the Magic Circle firm set to make up to 115 business...
According to rumors on the Tubes (it’s not a truck!), Shearman & Sterling is laying off administrative staff today. Lawyers are apparently...
DLA Piper announced today it is laying off 20 lawyers and 34 staff across its Asian offices, in response to the global...
As predicted, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe is laying off a total of 300 employees. Orrick has begun a firmwide reduction in its...
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is set shutter its office in Bratislava, Slovakia, closing its only Central and Eastern European office outside Vienna and...
Layoffs of legal support staffers have pushed the staffing ratios at some law firms to one support staffer for every four lawyers....
