Layoffs
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Bankruptcy, Biglaw, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Dissolution, Labor / Employment, Layoffs, Litigators
Dewey Know When LeBoeuf Is Cooked? When Associates Are Laid Off En Masse
Many of the associates who are still at Dewey & LeBoeuf received bad news today. -
Akin Gump, Bankruptcy, Biglaw, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Dissolution, Lateral Moves, Layoffs, LeBoeuf Lamb, Media and Journalism, Music, Musical Chairs, Partner Issues, Silicon Valley, Staff Layoffs
Dewey Have Any Partners Left To Be Poached? Not Many After the Latest Departures
Dewey & LeBoeuf continues to hemorrhage talent, all around the world. Who is going where? - Sponsored
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Bankruptcy, Bar Exams, BARBRI, Biglaw, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Dewey Ballantine, Dissolution, ERISA, JPMorgan Chase, Lateral Moves, Layoffs, LeBoeuf Lamb, Money, Musical Chairs, Partner Issues, Schiff Hardin, Silicon Valley, Staff Layoffs
Dewey Have an End in Sight? Friday Will Be the Last Day for Many Employees
What is the latest Dewey & LeBoeuf news? Some employees may lose their jobs as of this Friday -- plus news about incoming associates, retired partners, and defecting partners.
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Bankruptcy, Biglaw, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Dissolution, Labor / Employment, Layoffs, Staff Layoffs
When Dewey WARN People?
Dewey warns people to prepare for the worst... -
Associate Salaries, Biglaw, Lateral Moves, Layoffs, Money, Musical Chairs, Partner Issues, Partner Profits, Patents
Dickstein Shapiro: It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times
There's good news and there's bad news coming out of Dickstein Shapiro. Let's start with the good news.... -
Basketball, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Gambling, Gambling / Gaming, John Edwards, Law Schools, Layoffs, Lunacy, Morning Docket, Murder, Sentencing Law, Trials
Morning Docket: 03.16.12
* While “Dewey remains a great firm with terrific lawyers” for the time being, check back in after five percent of the firm’s attorneys have been laid off. Then tell us how great and terrific things are, we dare you. [DealBook / New York Times]
* The University of St. Thomas School of Law really “take[s] data accuracy very seriously.” That’s why the employed at graduation rate the school reported to U.S. News was off by 47.7%, right? [National Law Journal]
* John Edwards has a judge’s permission to use Rielle Hunter’s lawyers at his campaign finance trial. Mmm, there’s nothing like getting some legal sloppy seconds from your former mistress. [Bloomberg]
* After two days of deliberations, jurors in the Dharun Ravi privacy trial still haven’t reached a verdict. Just think, if he had taken the plea, he wouldn’t be worrying as much about deportation right now. [New York Post]
* If Hemy Neuman’s delusions about Olivia Newton-John were about getting physical, instead of getting murderous, maybe he wouldn’t have been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. [CNN]
* It’s the most wonderful time of the year: March Madness! Are NCAA bracket pools legal in your office? It depends. Either way, all I know is that I’ll be betting on Lehigh. Go Mountain Hawks! [Businessweek]
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Biglaw, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Dewey Ballantine, Layoffs, LeBoeuf Lamb, Money, Partner Issues, Partner Profits, Staff Layoffs
Dewey Owe Too Much to Certain Partners?
Do some of Dewey's recent financial issues stem from excessive amounts owed to certain partners? And how is the firm handling the situation? -
Biglaw, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Headhunters / Recruiters, Lateral Moves, Layoffs, Money, Musical Chairs, Partner Issues, Partner Profits, Staff Layoffs
Dewey Have Comment on Recent Developments?Yes -- Firm Is Cutting 5 to 6 Percent of Personnel
The rumor mill has been churning nonstop over the past week about Dewey & LeBoeuf. In our recent stories about the firm, we’ve discussed reports of financial difficulties, partner departures, and possible layoffs of lawyers and staff. Firm management has been fairly tight-lipped -- until now. What did firm chairman Steven Davis have to say? - Sponsored
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Biglaw, Layoffs, Partner Issues, Partner Profits, Secretaries / Administrative Assistants, Staff Layoffs
Staff Layoff Watch: Bingham McCutchen Makes Cuts
Are staff layoffs at large law firms on the upswing? Bingham McCutchen just announced some cuts. How many individuals were affected, and what was the rationale for the reductions? -
ATL Career Center Survey, Biglaw, Career Center, Law Schools, Layoffs
ATL Survey Update: Student Favorites and the Ghosts of Layoffs Past
The ATL School and Firm Insiders Survey continues to roll along at a nice clip: we expect our 3,000th respondent any minute now. While we’re pleased with this response, of course we encourage all of you who haven’t yet to take 3-5 minutes and head over here to take our absolutely confidential survey. Thanks in […] -
In-House Counsel, Labor / Employment, Layoffs
House Rules: RIF Is a Four-Letter Acronym
When I was a kid, before many of you were born, there were ads during Saturday morning cartoons for a program called “RIF” -– an acronym for “Reading is Fundamental.” Started in 1966 in Washington, D.C., it is supposedly one of the oldest non-profit educational programs in existence. I mentioned RIFs in my last column, […] -
Biglaw, Job Searches, Law Schools, Layoffs, Unemployment
More Evidence That The Legal Job Market Is In Terrible Shape
Yesterday, the Atlantic was the messenger reminding you of the serious financial peril involved in starting a legal career. Yeah folks, even in 2011, the legal economy was still shedding jobs. But it's not like law schools were spitting out fewer graduates, so... you do the math. Here, the Atlantic has put things in a fancy chart. Pictures people, it'll be like an LSAT game: how many people made a terrible investment in higher education? -
Biglaw, Layoffs, Letter from London, Partner Issues, United Kingdom / Great Britain
Letter from London: Expelled from Linklaters's Gilded Cage(Layoffs at Linklaters, at the partner level.)
A few months ago, one of the public relations staff at Linklaters invited me to have lunch with him in the firm’s canteen. Now, I know that if I was a client, or even a journalist of greater rank, my PR acquaintance would have probably deemed me worthy of a trip to a restaurant on […]
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Allen & Overy, Biglaw, Layoffs, Letter from London, Unemployment, United Kingdom / Great Britain
Letter from London: Jobless Lawyer Starts Occupy Movement
The Occupy movement has reached the legal profession, with an unemployed law graduate launching a campaign to occupy the Inns of Court (London’s legal quarter). “Through no fault of our own, a generation of [law school] graduates find ourselves with no jobs — or no jobs as lawyers anyway,” wrote the graduate under the alias […] -
Biglaw, Layoffs, Outsourcing, Staff Layoffs
The Growing Trend of Staff Layoffs: Fulbright and Goodwin Announce Cuts
Over the summer, we wondered: what can law firms do to prepare for a possible double-dip recession? One obvious answer: firms can “right-size” themselves, by making sure that they are as lean and as mean as they can be. And this seems to be what has been happening over the past few months. We haven’t […] -
Biglaw, Layoffs, Outsourcing, Staff Layoffs, Technology
Staff Layoff Watch: O'Melveny & Myers Replaces 75 Humans With Technology
The big news from yesterday morning was bad news for the staff at O'Melveny & Myers. News started leaking out Monday night that the firm would be laying off 75 support staffers. Approximately half the of the laid off O'Melveny staffers will be cut outright. The other half will have the opportunity to be relocated to scenic West Virginia.... -
Barack Obama, Biglaw, Job Searches, Layoffs, Unemployment
Can Obama's Jobs Bill Help Laid Off and Unemployed Attorneys?
According to the Department of Labor, 14 million people in our country are unemployed. And with a surplus of lawyers that reaches into the thousands in almost every state, unemployment is a serious problem for the legal profession. Unfortunately, we all know that Biglaw firms -- and surely other firms, as well -- are avoiding these attorneys like the plague. Facing these seemingly insurmountable odds, what's an unemployed attorney to do? As it turns out, President Obama wants to lend a hand, but only if he can get Congress to pass this jobs bill.... -
Biglaw, Layoffs, Musical Chairs, Outsourcing, Partner Issues, Staff Layoffs
Two Partners Leave Paul Hastings for Nixon Peabody(Plus Paul Hastings staff layoffs.)
During 2011, Paul Hastings has been picking up partners. Like any large firm, however, Paul Hastings loses partners, too. We've just learned of two partners who are ankling PH for Nixon Peabody. Let's find out who they are, get the backstory on their departures, and also obtain the 411 on some PH staff layoffs.... -
Biglaw, Layoffs, Money, Reader Polls, Staff Layoffs, Wall Street
Are We Entering a Double-Dip Recession? If So, What Should We Do?
On Monday, the stock market experienced its biggest drop since 2008. What's frightening about the latest economic turmoil is that it comes on the heels of a brutal recession that the U.S. economy has not yet fully recovered from. Are we entering the second dip of a double-dip recession? If so, what does that mean for law firms and lawyers? -
Layoffs, Public Interest, Staff Layoffs, State Judges
Nationwide Layoff Watch: The Connecticut State Judiciary
Layoffs at law firms have slowed to a trickle (although we still hear the occasional rumor; email us with your tips). In the public sector, however, layoffs continue — and may even accelerate, as state governments and the federal government grapple with contentious budget issues. Today brings word of major layoffs in Connecticut. In a […]