The New York Law Journal has published its annual survey of summer class sizes at New York Biglaw firms. Latham & Watkins...
First, Manhattan’s Skadden announced that 2009 Summer Associate Program 3Ls, if they are offered jobs, will not begin until 2011. Now Atlanta’s...
The 2009 Summer Associate Program at Skadden has begun. And the 3Ls have been warned that, if they get an offer to...
London’s Barlow Lyde & Gilbert, which recently opened a fifth office in Manchester, has asked half of its September 2009 incoming trainee...
Late last year, New York City’s Schulte Roth & Zabel laid off 30 lawyers. This week the firm asked 20 attorneys to...
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney has announced that start dates for first-year associates will be deferred from September 2009 to February 2010. There...
In March, Atlanta’s Troutman Sanders said layoffs were likely. Now legal industry news sites have noticed that 28 names have mysteriously disappeared...
Hartford, Connecticut’s Robinson & Cole is cutting all associate and counsel salaries by $10,000. The pay cuts are effective immediately, and affect...
Chicago’s Chapman and Cutler is taking steps to reduce costs, including laying off an undisclosed number of “underperforming” lawyers, and possibly cutting...
Atlanta-based Alston & Bird is deferring start dates for incoming associates. Summer programs are being reduced to nine weeks. Entering associates will...
Fried Frank laid off 99 employees, lawyers and staff, today. Effective today, we are implementing changes that will result in an overall...
