Nationwide Layoff Watch: Jenner & Block Cuts … Partners
The hits to the Chicago market keep on coming. In the wake of Katten Muchin Rosenman laying off 21 attorneys, and Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal cutting 25 attorneys and additional staff, Jenner & Block is getting rid of 10 partners:
The Chicago-based firm is asking about 10 partners, both equity and non-equity, to exit with the bulk of those affected currently working out of the firm’s biggest office in Chicago, the sources said. No particular practice area is more affected than others. The departures equate to about 6 percent of Jenner’s 155 equity partner headcount and 2 percent of the overall 490 lawyer headcount. The firm declined comment.
Remember that happy-happy-joy-joy meeting Jenner held earlier this month? According to a tipster, Jenner associates were told:
not to worry about the issues on wall st- they will not adversely affect Jenner’s bottom line. Jenner is having a great year and bonus are expected to be as good or better than last year.
Well how does that statement jibe with cutting 10 partners? As one commenter put it:
A rich man doesn’t need to tell you that he’s rich.
The flip side below the fold.
Maybe the reason Jenner told associates to be positive in early October was that they planned to to part ways with under performing partners all along. According to the National Law Journal, Jenner is looking to increase efficiency across the board:
“In this economy, all well-managed law firms, including Jenner & Block, must assess operations, staffing and expenses on a continuing basis and Jenner & Block is making selected staffing changes to better align our expertise and services with the current and anticipated client needs, just as we have in the past few years,” managing partner Susan Levy said in a statement issued by the firm. “In this economy, we have to be particularly vigilant and are taking a hard look at every area of expense.”
Why should associates pay when partners can’t make it rain?
Nonetheless, losing partners usually does not increase associate job security. Chicago might be taking the hits right now, but I can’t imagine Washington or New York associates feel any better this morning.
Update: Check here for additional Jenner information.
Jenner & Block shows 10 partners the door [National Law Journal]
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gallion
Is this a joke, considering the attached article from the National Law Journal is dated October 27, 2008, which hasn't happened yet?
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K&S? Skadden DC? Dechert? ..............
It seems more like Jenner is using the economy as an excuse to trim some fat and get rid of partners who aren't bringing enough dough. 10 partners at Jenner isn't as bif of a deal as 21 associates at Katten or 25 at Sonnenschein. I'm sure Kirkland will trim some fat, too - since everyone else is doing it.
Oh MY God. If I was a first year right now I would drop out immediately and get a refund. This looks bad.
Elie is an idiot anyway and much of this is misleading. For instance, Katten only cut 8 lawyers in Chi, 21 nationwide. Don't try and create a panic because you are too lazy to do your research.
MysTTTal
"FROM THE UPCOMING ISSUE"
(From the law.com link, at the top...)
All of the "Chicago is invincible!" trolls appear to have worked themselves into an angry panic . . . BWAHAHAH!
WHEN THE HELL ARE WE GOING TO START HEARING ABOUT BONUSES.
DAMN IT!
"they planned to to part ways"
Other than that, not bad Elie.
1. Lat,. I'm serious, how long are you going to let this continue? Axe the fat HLS dude
2. That's how you do it - get rid of the partners not the associates. Kudos, Jenner
#6-the article says from the upcoming issue which is probably being published on the 27th
Charlotte .... Chicago ... Atlanta .............DC ........like dominoes......
Am glad I work in Dallas.
Don't see anything about PEANUTS and CHEESE in this post? Whattup wit dat?
Bonuses. We are lucky if we get peanuts and cheese according to one poster.
11 - The point is that all 3 are Chicago-based firms. Trimming fat in satellite offices is one thing, but when hits start coming in the home office, something else is going on.
19 - yeah, b/c Dallas is recession-proof and firms are all too happy to pay associates 200k for working 1800 hours. I suggest checking your local job listings for rodeo clown positions or whatever the hell people do in Dallas.
Glad I work in New York for a major foreign oil company.
I'll be in a helicopter to foreign countries while you piss and moan about losing equity shares in the rat race you call law firms.
~In House Counsel
Can anyone explain why I always get a webpage error when I post a comment? Perhaps something beyond my horrific ITTT skills?
25: Your post has been Jenner Blocked.
Isn't Dallas the paradise where rivers of raw sewage and human excrement flow through everyone's houses with high end brownish colored koi swimming willy nilly. Ahhh paradise indeed sir.
24 - that's gotta be a long helicopter ride.
24, that actually got tired pretty fast... Your troll-fu is weak. Any other ideas?
I don't understand why it's news that such a big law firm is getting rid of 10 partners. Regardless of the economy, shouldn't every organization shed it's baggage and under-performing employees every now and then? Laying off ten partners once a year seems normal, not newsworthy.
Never thought I'd say this, but good thing I work in Scranton!
30 - in other words, partners in your firm used to be let go every now and then all the time, it was no big deal?
Does anyone know the actual process for laying off associates and partners?
I assume that in most places the department heads (or a committee of such) have the ability to get rid of associates. But do the shareholders have to vote to get rid of partners?
26 ftw!
Jibe? JIBE?? Don't you mean JIVE!!??
You are kidding, right?
33, it all depends on the partnership agreement. Which you won't see until AFTER you agree to become a partner... assuming you are asked.
33: it does depend, but there is a distinction between a "partner" and an "employee" (though perhaps blurred in the case of non-equity partners). The more important thing is the connotation. Throwing your own partners on the street is pretty cannibalistic, barbaric, or whatever you want to call it.
A good business plan by JB---just because you are a partner does not mean you have a life long job. They are not cutting associates (yet) just partners. Why the fuss? Many businesses cut the bottom 10% of their management ranks every year. Helps make room for the up and comers.
What the hell is happening in Atlanta?
31: Scranton sounds nice. I'm from NYC but I wouldn't mind going down. That's what she said!
35: look up the words. Jibe is the right word. Jive would not be.
24: I'm in-house too. My company is doing spectacularly well, I love my work, and I leave at 5:30 every day. Can you believe all these people wasting their lives at their miserable law firms?
just got out of a meeting with a senior partner on the associates' committee of a top 10 firm -- bonuses are not looking good at all this year -- even though the firm is having a good year, the partners see this economy as an opportunity to stop the bonus "madness" and stop trying to tie big firms to i-banks. not good.
37, what makes you say that? Billing 400 hours and doing 1200 hours of business development was once, not so long ago, at least tacitly accepted. Firms simply cannot afford to have partners that do that anymore, and those that refuse to change should be axed.
What's the home market of the top 10 firm?
In-House Attorneys = TTT
Jenner needs to free up more resources for its new Havana office.
Meanwhile, Altheimer & Gray just laid off 23 associates. Yikes.
#47-The ghosts of Christmas past.
30, 33, 36
It is a process called 'top grading'
read the book by Jack Welch...you might actually learn something useful
Things are looking bleak in Miami, too.
#32, nicely done. very nice.
Good luck kids. Partners don't have lockstep pay raises so you can fire them anytime.
When does the Jenner fiscal year end? That is when they will be firing the associates.
Ass-clown "In House Counsel" @ 24: By "New York" you must mean Buffalo and by "foreign countries" you must mean eastern Canada. Helicopters do not have the range to fly more than a few hundred miles. Apparantly they don't teach you anything about oil products and how your customers use them at your major oil company.
23: two things. One, our economy in Dallas is doing better than most around the country, so that provides a little more stability. Two, we don't get paid "200k" down here -- although the Texas firms follow the 160K for first years, the bonuses are very small and the lockstep salary increases are incremental.
After lamenting my choice of city for years, I'm very happy that I work in Dallas, and, more importantly, that our housing prices are not decreasing.
Jenner has been engaged in bloodletting in the partner ranks for a while now. Vicious place; can you blame the people who are still there for being vicious and twitchy?
Their summer hiring was also somewhat contracted.
54 - words cannot express how happy I am to hear that you are fulfilled.
54 -- Mr. Dallas, Care to comment on the ponds of sewage in everyone's yard complete with koi shaped feces?
Curious in DC
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57: it's Ms. Don't presume gender. And, I think you're referring to the recent events in Houston, because, thankfully, I don't know anyone with a sewer in their front yard or acquatic fecal matter.
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49, you tool, 33 and 36 were talking about the mechanics of the process, not the managerial concepts.
Some firms in NY do lockstep compensation for partners. i.e., Cleary, Debevoise
Jenner had been talking about axing between 10 and 20 partners since they axed a large number of partners last year. Their bottom line is actually slightly ahead of where they were last year, but they are just really obsessed with upping their PPP in this market. I'm actually kind of surprised that they went with only 10.
There are fecal fish in Texas?
66-- not if you chew your food properly.
66- yes, and they're delicious.
Jack Welch is sexy
Guys in my high school who would strut around with letter jackets but couldn't play were cut from the team all the time, it was no big deal.
----FRAT STUD
I hear Skattten DC is over run with fecal fish.
OK wait, I have a friend asking me for advice about Skadden DC. Someone clarify.
28, 29, 46, 53
I should apologize for not making myself clear; I fly a company helicopter to the airport where I travel to foreign countries on business. The last time I did that was in Bali. We also do business in other parts of Southeast Asia.
But I am happy that you are envious. You should've taken Indonesian as a language during college instead of majoring in English. Sucks to be you, doesn't it?
42 --
Yes, working in a company in a recession (and depression) proof industry certainly does wonders for the mindset.
So I do enjoy reading the comments here. Certainly a touch of schadenfreude here.
43,
Bingo! Maverick's Dead!
That my little chick-a-dee's is why there will be small or no bonuss given out. Firms don't have to compete with non-existant companies taking their employees.
Some firms in NY do lockstep compensation for partners. i.e., Cleary, Debevoise
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I don't believe that for a second--there is no WAY a partner with a serious book is going to except compensation in line with some guy who has only one or two whales and a bunch of guppies.
#70 = Cut from the team
Dallas is a best-kept secret. Get to live in a 3,300 sq ft house w/ a yard as a 3rd year, pay no state income taxes, great restaurants, one of the largest number of billionaires per capita (so there's good shopping and classy stuff going on), etc.
I hope those in NY are having fun with what will be their lower bonuses, soon to be higher taxes, cesspool homelessness, 500 sq ft crap-hole in brooklyn or jersey, and 2300 hours/year -- all so you can go to times square or get a drink at some obscure pseudo-intellectual coffee house or weird restaurant that everyone is afraid to admit that they don't like.
One of our managing partners looks like Phillip Seymour Hoffman in Mission Impossible 3. It scares me a little. I hope they let him go. He keeps threatening people I care for and love.
63-
Tool?? really?? The only tool I see is the one I used to 'pound' your old lady..
-49
Texas is awesome. In fact, it would be the best place to live in the U.S. if it weren't for all of them damn Texans.
73,
If you are serious, you must be the most miserable piece of shit not to have (yet) eaten a bullet... I don't think I'm going to lose my job. But I would rather lose it and still be me than have a great job and be you.
63-
Tool?? really?? The only tool I see is the one I used to 'pound' your old lady..
-49
only tourists go to times square you backwoods fly-over state dipsht. and outside of decent bbq, Dallas is a fucking joke for those of us who have actually tasted the finer things in life. i live in NY specifically to get away from dumb rednecks and the McMansions that my taxes are now going to have to bail you out of when you lose your job in four months.
#73---I am impressed -- an in house attorney and also a helicopter pilot. Must give you lots of job security.
83,
Four months? Good guess. I'd say end of February as well for a good number of people here.
For those who are intelligent enough, I'd spend the last four months looking for other options instead of just passively sitting there and hoping that the severance package will tide you over for a while.
~In House Counsel
11, this story broke on the WSJ law blog a few minutes after it broke here. Even they report 10 partners.I guess you were too lazy to do your own research.
83: I have lived in both nyc and dallas. Many educated people (meaning those with open minds, versus predetermined stereotypes) could tell you that most of the "finer things" available in nyc can be found in Dallas. We have the largest urban arts district in the country (and with the addition of the DCPA, it's even better), and many of the same designer boutiques that you find in nyc. We also have incredible local chefs (stephen pyles, dear fearing, etc.), exclusive clubs, and luxury hotels. The pretention here about equals nyc!
84
Thank you, but I never said I was a helicopter pilot. I fly company helicopters and others pilot them.
Reading comprehension much?
~In House Counsel
LOL@t"here's good shopping and classy stuff going on'
Yee-HAW!
Simpson, Debovoise and Cleary do have lockstep for partners.
86, 11 was talking about how of the 21 let go at KATTEN only 8 were in Chicago. The point being, Elie is trying to make this a story about Chicago being in the shitter like Charlotte, but without the true facts. Sonnenschine destroyed their Charlotte office with the cuts.
Anyway, why no update on Dechert?
Anyone got intel on the Boston market? (The legal market, not the fast food chicken chain, which we all know is doing just delicious.)
DPW has lockstep compensation for partners.
75 - Simpson, Debovoise, and Cleary do lockstep for partners.
24 - If someone puts you on a helicopter from New York to a foreign country other than Canada or Mexico, it's an assassination attempt. You're flame, and you're terrible at it.
92 - Boston Market has served more cock than chick-fil-a.
88---Oh I misunderstood. Thank you for the clarification. You fucking tool!
I likes me some classy stuff. Sling Blade loves him some purty things and colorful painting squares.
Jenner - Katten - Sonnenschein. What's next in Chi-town?
Any news about Mayer, McDermott, Kirkland, Sidley or Baker?
87, I've also lived in both, and I like New York more, but it's not really for any objective reason. I like the 'feel' of the place more, but I understand that that 'feel' comes at a price. It's stupid to try to objectively state that one is 'better' than the other. If you prefer a somewhat slower pace of life, Dallas is for you. If you're a big hockey fan, New York is for you... I could go on and on.
yea, but there are discretionary bonuses at the firms with lockstep partner compensation, right?
75. It's great that you don't believe that, but its a fact. It is one of the big selling points for the firm. However, I am sure it if you are not carrying your own weight, you can still be terminated. It makes for a much more amicable relationship within the firm because partners don't compete for business.
Dallas is clearly for anyone who likes classy goings-on.
Shouldn't Jenner be doing better than many peer firms? With the heavy focus on litigation, one would expect Jenner to be less effected than firms which are more reliant on finance/real estate work.
77,
You are a backwoods retard. The exact same things were said by associates in Charlotte not long ago, and many of them now feel like they just got a prostate exam with a beach umbrella. NY will endure.
I just moved to the Dallas area 4 months ago from the Detroit area (where we rented). I've lived in Chicago, Phoenix and Western Michigan.
The Dallas area is great. Tons of things to do (on par with Chicago in general). Low house prices. No state income tax. Good weather. Good economy and jobs. Lots of museums, music, shopping, restaurants, whatever. Football, unfortunately, now on par with Chicago (although we go to a bar with about 25 other transplants and watch Bears games). And not many native Texans.
It's an undiscovered gem. And the Dallas area housing prices have increased in the last four or five months.
DPW pared back on next summer's class big-time - looks like they are getting ready for a big time slow down.
I'm interested in other remote legal markets with classy stuff goin' on. Ya'll know of any?
105: In your metaphorical prostate exam, is the beach umbrella open or closed? Or is it inserted in the closed position, then opened? Just once, or intermittently? There are potentially varying levels of pain for each such scenario. I crave - nay, need - these details. Now. Please.
105: In your metaphorical prostate exam, is the beach umbrella open or closed? Or is it inserted in the closed position, then opened? Just once, or intermittently? There are potentially varying levels of pain for each such scenario. I crave - nay, need - these details. Now. Please.
They just opened up a sweet outlet mall in Odessa TX that has a lot of classy stuff but at prices even Joe the Plumber would like.
Jenner - Katten - Sonnenschein. What's next in Chi-town?
Any news about Mayer, McDermott, Kirkland, Sidley or Baker?
I am enjoying all the hate for Texas on here. I'm a born and bred Northeasterner (raised in the suburbs on Long Island and NJ), went to college and law school in NYC and couldn't be happier to be in a place where the cost of living is cheap and people aren't so rude. Took a little getting used to, for sure, but there is no way in hell I'd ever go back. But trust me, YOU wouldn't like it. Stay there.
Love y'all,
Austin
Houston isn't bad (hot and humid, though). San Antonio is supposed to be great. Pittsburgh is alot better than you'd think (but tough to get jobs).
Your local library should have a book on the 300 or 500 Best Places to Live in the US. It ranks metro areas in categories like cost of living, climate, things to do, crime, economy and job growth, health care availability, etc. You can decide what's important to you and do your rankings.
That's how I found out about Texas and a few other places.
97,
I sincerely hope that you are not exercising those stupendous reading skills in your pursuit of the billable hour. Otherwise you would open yourself to a legal malpractice suit.
But, hey, if you're making $190K, who cares what the clients think?
I assure you -- your partners will.
~In House Counsel
Can we give Texas back to Mexico?
mckee nelson is laying off associates in nyc
111 - now that sounds like mah kinda place. Odessa. Has a nice ring to it. What's the pick-up truck/sedan ratio? It's really gotta be at least 5/1 for me to fit in.
So I would imagine that Kirkland, Winston, Sidley, Mayer, and Baker are next?
What's going on in Chicago?
Shouldn't Jenner be doing better than many peer firms? With their focus on litigation, one would expect Jenner to be less affected than firms which are more reliant on finance/real estate work.
mckee nelson got dissed and dismissed at my T10 law school this year during interviews - I heard of one associate interviewer engaging in some pleading/begging with a student. I guess that was unnecessary.
Its surprising Jenner didn't hold off and do this after its summer associate class was full
None of you get! Hiring Elie was a subtle way for Lat to once and for all prove that YLS is superior to HLS.
Genius.
Makes me glad that I never took out loans and went into government.
Does anyone have any idea of DPW's summer program this year? How many summer associates are they going to hire?
Holland &Knight DC, too. Any more info on the Skadden DC thing?
Dallas is a best-kept secret. Get to live in a 3,300 sq ft house w/ a yard as a 3rd year, pay no state income taxes, great restaurants, one of the largest number of billionaires per capita (so there's good shopping and classy stuff going on), etc.
I hope those in NY are having fun with what will be their lower bonuses, soon to be higher taxes, cesspool homelessness, 500 sq ft crap-hole in brooklyn or jersey, and 2300 hours/year -- all so you can go to times square or get a drink at some obscure pseudo-intellectual coffee house or weird restaurant that everyone is afraid to admit that they don't like.
Everything is bigger in Texas, including the fresh fecal fish fillet in Houston.
goddamn texas/NY trolls derailing the conversation
Jenner's not the only Chicago firm laying off partners.
126 ....? Really?
83 -- we in dallas want to thank all you suckers in NY for paying your high taxes to support your bloated state govt and the federal govt. go to any of the cost of living websites -- making 160k in NY is like making 80k in dallas (whereas 160k in dallas is like 300k in NY). what a sucker -- all those years of law school to make essentially 80k (a "poor"). you could have just gone to ITT Tech!
but at least NY has good, new transportation systems, good weather, nice people, and a healthy economy. oh wait...
122, EVER THINK MAYBE THEY HOPE SOME PEOPLE WON'T ACCEPT?
113: God Bless You. As a transplant myself (Chicago, not NY), I'm trying to keep Dallas a secret. I miss the cooler weather, but when you're playing golf on Christmas Eve, it's all good. Same money as NYC, more take-home cash, cheaper real-estate...nice.
Conversely, up the lake a short drive another firm is adding partners...
http://milwaukee.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/stories/2008/10/20/daily16.html
I just heard that Dechert NY has been blocked from accessing abovethelaw. The page just won't come up anymore.
A shitload of partners from other offices came in for a meeting. That type of travel is very out of character so it's probably about the lay off situation.
Just for clarity's sake, the 21 associates laid off at Katten was nationwide. Only 8 -- 7 associates and one staff attorney -- were let go in the Chicago office.
130 - Why would Kirkland need layoffs? Their best practice areas are counter-cyclical. Litigation, Restructuring, and IP are doing fine.
132 - we're glad you have all that extra scratch so you can spend it on your cousin that you're banging on the side while dating your sister.
although a lhe was from houston (which is a dump as well), a learned attorney recently hit it on the head - "i'm sorry you are from dallas."
117,
how many are mckee letting go?
There only thing wrong with Dallas, and its a big problem, is all the damn Texans. If they all left, it might be kind of nice.
Can we get a layoff chart published, with numbers?
Supposedly ArentFox and Wiley have been letting people go since the end of September.
Not really relevant, but I thought I'd mention that the Kirkland and Sidley are advising on the possible Exelon-NRG deal.
Maybe if Jenner had cut out some of those big fancy parties for attorneys as well as their top shelf happy hour, they would have paychecks for the people who are being cut.
Damn, this site has gone full Trig Palin.
Overheard someone talking about a hiring freeze at UVA today.
The [Charlotte area two years ago] is a best-kept secret. Get to live in a 3,300 sq ft house w/ a yard as a 3rd year, pay no state income taxes, great restaurants, one of the largest number of billionaires per capita (so there's good shopping and classy stuff going on), etc.
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I'm a born and bred Northeasterner (raised in the suburbs on Long Island and NJ), went to college and law school in NYC and couldn't be happier to be in a place where the cost of living is cheap and people aren't so rude. Took a little getting used to, for sure, but there is no way in hell I'd ever go back. But trust me, YOU wouldn't like it. Stay there.
Love y'all,
The [Charlotte area two years ago]
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The [Charlotte area two years ago] is great. Tons of things to do (on par with Chicago in general). Low house prices. No state income tax. Good weather. Good economy and jobs. Lots of museums, music, shopping, restaurants, whatever. Football, unfortunately, now on par with Chicago (although we go to a bar with about 25 other transplants and watch Bears games). And not many native Texans.
It's an undiscovered gem. And [Charlotte area two years ago] housing prices have increased in the last four or five months.
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I'm trying to keep the [Charlotte area two years ago] a secret. I miss the cooler weather, but when you're playing golf on Christmas Eve, it's all good. Same money as NYC, more take-home cash, cheaper real-estate...nice.
mavericky post!
Charlotte is (was) much more dependent on finance than Dallas is. Dallas has a fairly balanced economy.
Smooth move. And classy too. This weekend's Jenner prom at the oh so swank Palmer House should be a ton of fun. The anointed and apointed can stand in their royal box and give thumbs down to a few dozen more of the unworthy unwashed and unholy. Be there. Aloha.
I thought the secret was that Dallas is Texican speak for "Toilet"
Fecal Fish Fighter
When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I was not a Jew.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.
Where are all the Chicago COL trolls?
Haven't heard anything about Thacher in a while...anyone know how they're doing?
154,
One assumes they are already making plans for leaving the shithole known as Chicago for a place in the shining firmament that is the Obama administration. January 20, 2009, the Chicago legal field will be emptied as a gold rush begins toward Washington, D.C.
"Oh so sorry that some of you partners cannot join us for Jenner prom since you got CUT." Ridiculous...
I thought the secret was that Dallas is Texican speak for "Toilet"
Fecal Fish Fighter
153 must be from KC
America for spacious skies for amber waves of grain for purple mountains majesty above the fruited plain
Any news about PHJW? I know DC headcount is down by over 20% over the past 2 years.
When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I was not a Jew.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.
Who is left to speak out?
Who will listen?
The bank? The landlords?
The wailing and the gnashing of teeth.
Simpson has been laying off people! ATL needs to look into this!!!!!!
I hate Dallas
@83
Dallas Opera sucks given the size of the market/population. Houston has a first rate company by comparison. If Dallas even has a symphony no one outside northern Texas has heard of it.
In other words Dallas may not be a complete cultural wasteland, but trying to put in in the same league as New York is ridiculous - it doesn't even match Houston
@83
Dallas Opera sucks given the size of the market/population. Houston has a first rate company by comparison. If Dallas even has a symphony no one outside northern Texas has heard of it.
In other words Dallas may not be a complete cultural wasteland, but trying to put in in the same league as New York is ridiculous - it doesn't even match Houston
@83
Dallas Opera sucks given the size of the market/population. Houston has a first rate company by comparison. If Dallas even has a symphony no one outside northern Texas has heard of it.
In other words Dallas may not be a complete cultural wasteland, but trying to put in in the same league as New York is ridiculous - it doesn't even match Houston
Orrick stealth layoffs
It's not just big city big firms ... Baker and Daniels in Indianapolis just cut 21 partners (out of 400 or so).
Can anyone post more information about layoffs at Indiana firms? Such as the comment about Baker & Daniels cutting 21 partners... Would appreciate knowing where the information is coming from. Thanks.
Article in The Indiana Lawyer reports that it was 22 operational staff members in their Indianapolis and Fort Wayne offices. No lawyers or legal support members.
Solution To Layoffs
"Your Fired"-Jenner
"F__ Y__"-Block