Dewey & LeBoeuf has lured away from Cooley Godward Kronish a team of top lawyers, including the head of Cooley’s technology transactions...
Chicago-based Seyfarth Shaw, which in May laid off 50 people and reduced salaries, has brought on a new team of corporate and...
London Magic Circle firms Clifford Chance and Allen & Overy have delayed their 2009 partner promotions. Clifford Chance will defer this year’s...
Six partners from Sonnenschein have joined Morgan Lewis’ health care regulation practice. Joyce Cowan, Kathleen McDermott, John Rah, Albert Shay, and Howard...
UK law firm Watson Burton has launched a redundancy consultation targeting 25% of its staff. The firm is in consultation with 75...
Dewey & LeBoeuf announced that 66 partners of its 350 partners have seen pay cuts in the last 15 months. Some partners...
Allen & Overy is appointing 15 employee representatives to consult on the sweeping redundancy that is set to claim more than 200...
Bankrupt law firm Heller Ehrman paid out more than $7 million to 35 departing or retiring partners in 2008. The departures led...
Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg, a Chicago-based law firm with about 200 lawyers, cut nearly 10% of its attorneys. The firm eliminated 19...
Washington, DC-based Patton Boggs is adopting a new compensation plan for partners, retooling a long-held “eat-what-you-kill” system to reward partner cooperation and...
Former Ambassador David Gross, the US Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy, will join Wiley Rein as a partner in the...
Former Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey announced this afternoon that he will join the law firm Debevoise & Plimpton as a partner....
