London’s Freshfields will only hire 70% of its September 2009 trainees. Fourteen of the class of 48 trainees set to start this...
Mark Kirsch, head of Clifford Chance’s US litigation practice, has left the firm, leaving the 29 associates in the firm’s New York...
Liverpool, UK-based Goodmans has split into three separate firms: medical negligence and personal injury firm Goodmans; family law firm Heaney Watson; and...
In March, London’s Allen & Overy announced it would retain only 70% of its trainees for September 2009 and March 2010. Now...
Hill Dickinson will merge with City of London-based law firm Middleton Potts. The merged firm will be known as Hill Dickinson LLP...
Atlanta’s Kilpatrick Stockton has closed its London office. The firm has not released numbers of persons affected. The UK office had been...
Reed Smith is decimating associate salaries, cutting pay 10% across the organization. From the memo: …Reed Smith has adopted many changes to...
Blake Lapthorn has launched its third redundancy consultation in the past nine months, targeting 33 positions in business services and secretarial at...
London’s Charles Russell has targeted an undisclosed number of employees for redundancy, despite higher-than-expected billings. Laid off staff will be expected to...
Despite seeing its best financial results ever, UK law firm DWF has frozen pay and canceled bonuses. The firm was skewered online...
London’s Barlow Lyde & Gilbert, which recently opened a fifth office in Manchester, has asked half of its September 2009 incoming trainee...
Guernsey’s Collas Day has made six staff redundant, three of them voluntarily. The firm is reorganizing, and recently launched a London footprint....
