Law firm Pannone has laid off 35 staff, and is asking employees to voluntarily work a four-day week. The layoffs affected administrative...
In February we reported on a redundancy consultation at Simmons & Simmons, which targeted 69 people — 20 associates and 49 support...
In February we reported that DLA Piper had launched a second layoff consultation, with up to 140 jobs under threat. Today the...
Most offices of London’s Norton Rose have approved a flexible hours scheme first announced in March. The firm hopes to avoid redundancies...
London’s CMS Cameron McKenna has announced a redundancy consultation at its headquarters, targeting 80 jobs. Twenty fee earners and 60 non-fee earners...
Shoosmiths, which in April asked its 2009 trainees to withdraw from their contract, or defer until 2011, without any financial compensation, has...
Berwin Leighton Paisner has launched a redundancy consultation targeting 30 lawyers and 55 staff positions at the firm’s London headquarters. The cuts...
Japanese industrial and financial conglomerate Nomura has cut up to 12 legal positions in London. The firm took over dissolved Lehman Brothers’...
After a redundancy consultation, White & Case is informing over 10% of its 73 London partners they must turn in their wigs...
Nineteen women and four men laid off from Allen & Overy are founding their own firm, Maurice Turnor Gardner. Formerly with A&O’s...
The UK’s Allen & Overy announced in February a plan to lay off 450 jobs in a redundancy consultation. Well, today’s the...
Linklaters is cutting pay for starting lawyers, and shrinking salary increases. The firm will pay new lawyers £61,500 ($91,300), down from £66,600...
