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  • Law Shucks, Layoffs

    Last Week in Layoffs: 09.21.09

    Ed. note: Above the Law has teamed up with Law Shucks. Law Shucks has done excellent work translating all of the layoff news into user-friendly charts and graphs: the Layoff Tracker. A piece in Wednesday’s WSJ brought into stark relief the futility of using unemployment data for any sort of analysis, as we futilely do […]
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  • Law Shucks, Layoffs, Sonnenschein

    This Week In Layoffs: 09.13.09

    Ed. note: Above the Law has teamed up with Law Shucks. Law Shucks has done excellent work translating all of the layoff news into user-friendly charts and graphs: the Layoff Tracker. We’ll actually be hitting a week and a half in this roundup, going back to August 1. As we’ve been saying for a while, […]
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  • Law Shucks, Layoffs

    This Last Week in Layoffs: 08.24.09

    [Ed. note: Above the Law has teamed up with Law Shucks. Law Shucks has done excellent work translating all of the layoff news into user-friendly charts and graphs: the Layoff Tracker.] It seems so good, doesn’t it? According to the lead of a recent AP story, "The unemployment rate fell in 17 states and the […]
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  • Law Shucks, Layoffs

    This Week In Layoffs: 08.15.09

    Ed. note: Above the Law has teamed up with Law Shucks. Law Shucks has done excellent work translating all of the layoff news into user-friendly charts and graphs: the Layoff Tracker. Hallelujah! We’ve come so close recently, but we can finally call it. For the first time this year, we have gone an entire week […]
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  • Law Shucks, Layoffs

    This Week In Layoffs: 08.08.09

    [Ed. note: Above the Law has teamed up with Law Shucks. Law Shucks has done excellent work translating all of the layoff news into user-friendly charts and graphs: the Layoff Tracker.] Come on, now! Last week, we made it all the way until Thursday afternoon before word came out that Alabama’s Bradley Arant was keeping […]
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  • Law Shucks, Layoffs

    This Week in Layoffs: 08.01.09

    [Ed. note: Above the Law has teamed up with Law Shucks. Law Shucks has done excellent work translating all of the layoff news into user-friendly charts and graphs: the Layoff Tracker.] This is getting ridiculous. Every week we come closer and closer to the promised land: a week without layoffs. But still no dice. This […]
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  • Law Shucks, Layoffs

    This Week in Layoffs: 07.25.09

    [Ed. note: Above the Law has teamed up with Law Shucks. Law Shucks has done excellent work translating all of the layoff news into user-friendly charts and graphs: the Layoff Tracker.] We may not have seen the worst yet, the last few weeks’ progress in the American economy has turned slightly for the worse this […]
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  • Law Shucks, Layoffs

    This Week in Layoffs: 07.18.09

    [Ed. note: Above the Law has teamed up with Law Shucks. Law Shucks has done excellent work translating all of the layoff news into user-friendly charts and graphs: the Layoff Tracker.] Fortunately, this week’s law-firm layoffs didn’t follow last week’s surprise return to March form. In fact, there were fewer layoffs this week than any […]
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  • Law Shucks, Layoffs

    This Week In Layoffs: 07.11.09

    [Ed. note: Above the Law has teamed up with Law Shucks. Law Shucks has done excellent work translating all of the layoff news into user-friendly charts and graphs: the Layoff Tracker.] Where did that come from? The big news for the week is obviously DLA Piper blasting us back to mid-March form, with the biggest […]
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  • Law Shucks, Layoffs

    This Week in Layoffs: Mid-Year Layoff Review

    [Ed. note: Above the Law has teamed up with Law Shucks. Law Shucks has done excellent work translating all of the layoff news into user-friendly charts and graphs: the Layoff Tracker.] We’re not doing This Week in Layoffs this week, as it was a triple witching day – end of week, end of month and […]
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  • Law Shucks, Layoffs

    This Week in Layoffs: 06.29.09

    [Ed. note: Above the Law has teamed up with Law Shucks. Law Shucks has done excellent work translating all of the layoff news into user-friendly charts and graphs: the Layoff Tracker.] Forgive us for sounding like a broken record. There are only so many ways to say the same thing about US unemployment: the rate […]
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  • Law Shucks, Layoffs

    This Week In Layoffs: 06.22.09

    [Ed. note: Above the Law has teamed up with Law Shucks. Law Shucks has done excellent work translating all of the layoff news into user-friendly charts and graphs: the Layoff Tracker.] Let’s all move to Nebraska! In a week in which unemployment was up in 48 out of 50 states (plus DC), Nebraska’s unemployment dropped […]
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  • Law Shucks, Layoffs

    This Week in Layoffs: 06.13.09

    [Ed. note: Above the Law has teamed up with Law Shucks. Law Shucks has done excellent work translating all of the layoff news into user-friendly charts and graphs: the Layoff Tracker.] That’s it? We’re looking for that one perfect week of no layoffs and we lose it to a Tennessee firm and two UK firms? […]
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  • Law Shucks, Layoffs

    This Week in Layoffs: 06.06.09

    [Ed. note: Above the Law has teamed up with Law Shucks. Law Shucks has done excellent work translating all of the layoff news into user-friendly charts and graphs: the Layoff Tracker.] In perhaps an overabundance of exuberance for even the faintest glimmer of good news, media are celebrating the May unemployment report. The 345,000 jobs […]
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  • Law Shucks, Layoffs

    This Week In Layoffs: 05.30.09

    [Ed. note: Above the Law has teamed up with Law Shucks. Law Shucks has done excellent work translating all of the layoff news into user-friendly charts and graphs: the Layoff Tracker.] Alright, this is getting ridiculous. Last week, no real layoffs until Ropes & Gray got busted doing stealth layoffs at 11:00 on Friday morning. […]
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