Back in November, we reported that Loeb & Loeb laid off eight associates. At the time, the firm told us:
We continue to actively recruit, hire and invest in the firm’s core practice areas and in the past three months alone we have hired 13 associates, including 9 first-year associates, and 3 lateral partners. We expect to have a higher attorney head count at year end than at the beginning of the year.
But as the firm continues to make lateral hires, it looks like they are also continuing to cut associates. We understand that four associates were let go on Tuesday and that today will be their last day.
Our tipsters report that these attorneys will be receiving a 2 month severance package.
We’ve reached out to the firm, but Loeb & Loeb has not yet responded to our inquiries.
But it’ll be interesting to see how the firm describes the cuts. Last time, the firm said:
As part of Loeb & Loeb’s periodic attorney evaluation process and assessment of its overall personnel needs in its various practice areas, eight associates firmwide were notified that they were being let go.
We’ll see if these cuts are called performance related, or if they were triggered by the global economic meltdown.
Earlier: Nationwide (Stealth) Layoff Watch: Shearman & Sterling and Loeb & Loeb
LAST!!!
Holler
sheep, jews, butt cheeks, blah, blah, blah
oh, and first
De’Londa Brice: You cant do this to us! ‘Bey took the weight for all y’all.
Brianna Barksdale: And you’ve been amply compensated, but time moves on.
D: Not for ‘Bey it don’t.
B: What I meant to say is there’s no more money coming in. No more business. Avon is gone; so are his people.
D: Shiiiit, you seem to still be doing alright for yourself.
B: There’s nothing more I can do for you.
[De’Londa threatens that Bey will rat on the Barksdales; Brianna says she doesn’t care]
B: The thing is, I wanted you both to hear it from me. So there ain’t no more lies from here on in. She been paid enough over the last two years, that you should have enough money going forward, son. Your father has not been disrespected here. You both got what was coming. But ain’t nothing last forever.
ambush
You want more? Alright, while we’re out here kicking your ass, your cheerboys are over there, scamming on all your squirrel.
Ambush = laid before lunch by an unshaven woman
It was 5, actually.
I hate unshaven women.
Evan Chisler
Associate: “Surely you can’t be serious?”
Wildman: “I AM Serious. And don’t call me Shirley.”
BALLS DEEP IN SHEEP
Ramalinga RAJU
Office?
Space?
Suze Orman is fucking hot.
Did they lay off Lisa? She was my favorite Loeb.
Does any know the final number of associates laid off at Cahill?
Anything on the deep layoffs at Cargil and ALCOA?
gold jacket, green jacket, who gives a shit?
The good thing about leading the student bar association is that there are no layoffs. Corruption, unethical dalliances, late night rendez-vouss with disbarred profs and siphoning funds designed for student activities, yes. Perhaps even impeachment. But layoffs? You cannot layoff the Prez.
-SBA President
I don’t see how a laid off first year with 6 figure non-dischargeable debt WOULDN’T kill themselves.
The good thing about leading the student bar association is that there are no layoffs. Corruption, unethical dalliances, late night rendez-vouss with disbarred profs and siphoning funds designed for student activities, yes. Perhaps even impeachment. But layoffs? You cannot layoff the Prez.
-SBA President
Suze Orman is definitely one of America’s most eligible lesbians. Taken though, sadily.
Suze Orman is balls deep.
in her girlfriend, 23
4 – I got yesterday’s. what is today’s from?
20- Based on karma, Im long that you’ll either be (x) hit by a bus or (y) discovered as an abject moron and be laid off from your job (assuming, perhaps incorrectly, that you actually have one).
25 – The Wire
20 – What about all the 2007 graduates with 150K in non-dischargeabl debt who’ve been bartending nights for eighteen months because nobody’s hiring anywhere?
Loeb & Loeb, hereafter to be known in the Blawgosphere as “Leopold and Loeb”.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
s/ Judge of the Blawgosphere
Which offices were these cuts in?
Which offices were these cuts in?
Which offices were these cuts in?
30-32 : Are you asking about the offices the Cahill layoffs came from?
Dear 30, 31 & 32: The redundant ones.
Dear 30, 31 & 32: The redundant ones.
Which offices were these cuts in?
Which offices were these cuts in?
Which offices for Loeb? NY, CA?
“Officials, who claim Israel has denied them access to the Gaza area for four days, said medical teams found four young children huddled by the bodies of their dead mothers in a shelled house.”
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1110212/Israel-faces-UN-war-crimes-probe-dozens-civilians-moved-safe-house–bombed-airstrike-24-hours-later.html
Watch this CBS news video to see the nature of Jews http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev6ojm62qwA
The Pope calls Gaza a concentration camp. http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL8378047
And you thought the only dirtbag Jews were the ones you worked with.
Wow…39…tell us how you really feel. Maybe all this wouldn’t have started if Hamas did’t start shooting rockets at Israel…as our future President said…if someone were shooting rockets at a house that my daughters were in I would do anything in my power to stop it.
Wow…39…tell us how you really feel. Maybe all this wouldn’t have started if Hamas did’t start shooting rockets at Israel…as our future President said…if someone were shooting rockets at a house that my daughters were in I would do anything in my power to stop it.
39 — I am not sure what you are getting at. Please be less vague.
39 (and those who respond to him), you need to understand that there are two kinds of people on this site…
1) Those who don’t care what is going on in the middle east
2) Those that do care but are (mostly) mature enough to have their political discussions elsewhere.
Get a life.
So wait… was this firm actually started by the Leopold and Loeb guy?
CLARIFYING MINUTE ORDER
Dear 44:
My order in this case is by analogy to the Leopold and Loeb blood bath, but I would not discount the possibility that blood relations of “the Leopold and Loeb guy” founded this firm.
“Laying off” associates (particularly those who give intemperate peer job performance reviews, tell off the partner in charge of their (dwindling) practice group, and later file stream-of-consciousness-intemperate pro se complaints against the firm–is one thing, but canning partners is quite another.
Yes, this (partnership) is the carrot we have dangled for 10 years to motivate you to abandon all personal life in favor of 12 hour days (4 hours on Saturday), but, sorry, having earned that carrot, we are now unilaterally taking that carrot back.
/s Judge of the Blawgosphere
45- Eloquently said. Hopefully the size of your book is commensurate with the size of your ego (Although I doubt it).
I thought Loeb & Loeb died when the firm found out that ear piercing malpractice is not a lucrative specialty. It turns out that George Michael is not as good of a client as first thought.
Dear 46:
Whatever the size of my book, I walked out the door with it and never looked back, which is why I am out the door for W. Sonoma County as we speak, and why I will be drinking wine and poking around the Graton Gallery this weekend instead of chasing something that others could snatch away at will.
And I know a Yale grad who left a very profitable boutique dream position the year he made partner—who also seems to be enjoying the finer things in life—with the time to do so as well.
Different strokes…..
Cheers!
Dear 45-
Agreed. Have fun.
-46
Since September ‘08 Loeb is down by 16 associates in NY alone. Don’t know how many they claim to have added but 16 is a lot to have lost considering that lateralling now is pretty hard so they must be mostly layoffs.
@50 looked at LA and there were 9 associates from Sept ‘08 who are not there now. Makes a total of 25 between NY and LA which is a lot in a firm that has around 110 associates as of today.
I heard only Loeb Chicago is making decent profits, which is sad because they will be brought down by LA office.
THE LIST: This list does not include “redeployments,” mergers, staff, or staff attorneys.
Announced | Firm | Location | Total | “Review-Based”? | Acknowledged?
1/11/2007 Kenyon & Kenyon US 16 No Yes
10/1/2007 Thacher Proffitt & Wood US 24 No Yes
10/17/2007 Kirkland & Ellis Chicago 6 to 8 Yes No
1/10/2008 Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft Charlotte 9 No Yes
1/10/2008 Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft NYC 26 No Yes
2/14/2008 Winstead PC Dallas ~3 Yes Yes
2/29/2008 Dechert US 13 No Yes
3/20/2008 Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner US 26 No Yes
4/4/2008 Dewey & LeBoeuf Jacksonville 10 No Yes
4/4/2008 Dewey & LeBoeuf Hartford 22 No Yes
4/4/2008 Dewey & LeBoeuf Austin 16 No Yes
4/25/2008 Sutherland Asbill & Brennan Atlanta 8 Mix Yes
4/25/2008 Sutherland Asbill & Brennan DC <7 Mix Yes
5/12/2008 Paul Hastings US 22 Yes Yes
5/28/2008 Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal US 37 No Yes
6/5/2008 Blank Rome Philadelphia 6 Yes Yes
6/5/2008 Blank Rome NYC 2 Yes Yes
6/5/2008 Blank Rome DC 1 Yes Yes
6/11/2008 Thacher Proffitt & Wood US 36 No Yes
6/23/2008 Powell Goldstein US <10 No Yes
7/1/2008 Patton Boggs Dallas 4 Yes Yes
7/1/2008 Patton Boggs US 5 Yes Yes
7/14/2008 Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LA, SF, San Diego 15 Unk No
7/16/2008 Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman East Coast <10 Unk No
7/30/2008 Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft NYC, Charlotte, London, DC 96 No Yes
8/4/2008 DLA Piper London 1 No Yes
8/6/2008 Sullivan & Worcester Boston & NY 7 Yes No
8/12/2008 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett global 30 Yes No
8/21/2008 Morgan & Finnegan NYC ~4 No Yes
9/22/2008 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer unknown <5 No Yes
9/25/2008 Heller Ehrman US ~600? No Yes
10/2/2008 Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal US 25 No Yes
10/14/2008 Clifford Chance NYC & DC 20 No Yes
10/20/2008 Dewey & LeBoeuf Charlotte 8 No Yes
10/20/2008 Katten Muchin Rosenman US 21 No Yes
10/21/2008 Jenner & Block US 10 No Yes
10/22/2008 Dechert US 10 to 30 Yes No
10/23/2008 O’Melveny & Myers LA 5 Yes Yes
10/27/2008 White & Case Milan 14 No Yes
10/28/2008 Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner US ~500? No Yes
10/30/2008 Bell Boyd & Lloyd Chicago 10 No Yes
11/3/2008 McKee Nelson NYC 13 No Yes
11/3/2008 McKee Nelson DC 4 No Yes
11/11/2008 Loeb & Loeb US 8 Yes Yes
11/11/2008 White & Case US, London 70 No Yes
11/12/2008 Moore Van Allen Charlotte 20 No Yes
11/13/2008 Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe US 40 No Yes
11/14/2008 Greenberg Traurig NYC unk No No
11/19/2008 Brown Rudnick US 20 No Yes
11/20/2008 Mayer Brown US 33 No Yes
11/20/2008 Squire Sanders US <30 Yes Yes
11/21/2008 Dewey & LeBoeuf NYC 5 to 11 Unk No
11/21/2008 Fried Frank US 15 Yes No
12/1/2008 Fried Frank US 15 Yes No
12/3/2008 Reed Smith UK 11 No Yes
12/4/2008 Proskauer Rose US 35 No Yes
12/4/2008 Dewey & LeBoeuf NY 11 No Yes
12/4/2008 Dewey & LeBoeuf LA 1 No Yes
12/5/2008 Seyfarth Shaw US 30 No Yes
12/10/2008 Pircher Nichols & Meeks LA, Chicago 8 No Yes
12/10/2008 Howrey Unk ~10 Yes Yes
12/15/2008 Wolf Block US 15 No Yes
12/15/2008 Drinker Biddle US 20 No No
12/17/2008 Gunderson Dettmer US Unk Yes No
1/7/2009 Kirkland & Ellis Chicago 15-25 Yes No
1/7/2009 Dickstein Shapiro NYC & DC 10 No Yes
1/8/2009 Parker Poe NC/SC 13 No Yes
1/8/2009 Baker & McKenzie NYC 6 No Yes
1/8/2009 Clifford Chance London ~80 No Yes
1/9/2009 Wildman Harrold Chicago 10 Yes Yes
1/9/2009 Loeb & Loeb US 4 Unk No
Let me know if I missed something over the last month or so or listed anything incorrectly.