Linklaters , which announced in April salary cuts for starting lawyers and reduced salary increases, is now the UK’s largest firm by...
Recent laterals and layoffs in the legal sector: Tom Reilly joins Cooley Manion Jones in Boston, from Greenberg Traurig. He joins the...
Magic Circle law firm Clifford Chance LLP LLP saw average profits per equity partner drop 37% to £733,000 ($1.2 million) in the...
![Barlow Lyde & Gilbert Targets 49 Lawyers & Staff [Update 2]](https://www.jdjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/barlowlydegilbert_160x120-150x120.jpg "Barlow Lyde & Gilbert Targets 49 Lawyers & Staff [Update 2]")
London’s Barlow Lyde & Gilbert has launched a redundancy consultation targeting 49 lawyers. Trainees and staffers will not be affected. In April,...
Dentons , which in March laid off 37 lawyers and 39 staff, will only hire on half of their 2009 trainees. The...
In a year when most big law firms are seeing a drop in revenue, the UK’s Ince & Co is bucking the...
A new study by management consultant firm KermaPartners reveals that increasingly, law firm partners are taking jobs with less profitable firms in...
Pinsent Masons, which is in the midst of a redundancy consultation, has asked 25% of its incoming trainees to defer their start...
![Press Slams Freshfields for Trainee Layoffs [Update 2]](https://www.jdjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/freshfields2_160x120-150x120.jpg "Press Slams Freshfields for Trainee Layoffs [Update 2]")
In May, London’s Freshfields announced that only 14 of its class of 48 trainees set to start this Fall would be retained....
![Berwin Leighton Top UK Firm for Lawyer Satisfaction [Correction]](https://www.jdjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/sjberwin_160x120-150x120.jpg "Berwin Leighton Top UK Firm for Lawyer Satisfaction [Correction]")
Berwin Leighton Paisner, CMS Cameron McKenna and Norton Rose are the top three UK firms for lawyer satisfaction, according to a survey...
Bermuda’s Appleby Global will merge with the Isle of Man’s Dickinson Cruickshank. The legal, fiduciary and administration service firm will continue to...
We have been reporting on the saga of Clifford Chance’s US litigation practice. Group head Mark Kirsch jumped ship to Gibson Dunn,...
