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AmLaw: Cadwalader Still #1 for Layoffs

The American Lawyer has updated its list of AmLaw 200 law firms by percentage layoffs since January, 2008. More than…

Working Mother Magazine and Flex-Time Lawyers have announced their 2009 Best Law Firms for Women. The accolade is awarded based…

San Francisco’s Orrick, which laid off 300 employees in March, has informed its 2009 summers associates that any job offers…

San Francisco's Orrick, which laid off 300 employees in March, is abandoning lock-step compensation for associates. Under a lock-step scheme,…

The American Lawyer has assembled a list of AmLaw 200 law firms by percentage layoffs since January, 2008. More than…

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe is recruiting recent law school graduates for its Global Operations Center in Wheeling, West Virginia. The…

Over five years, London firms’ hiring of lateral partners has almost doubled, from 42 hires in 2004 to 79 in…

Many law firms are using the economic meltdown as an excuse to end seniority-based pay for associates, adopting "merit-based" systems…

Latham & Watkins is offering incoming lawyers $75,000 to take a year off. The firm, which fired 190 lawyers and…

It's been another disastrous week for law firm layoffs. So far: O'Melveny & Myers: 90 attorneys, 110 staff Shearman &…

As predicted, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe is laying off a total of 300 employees. Orrick has begun a firmwide reduction…

White & Case, one of six international firms granted a license to practice Singapore law, has canceled plans to merge…