Word is KLGates is merging with a Chicago firm. Guess that's why they have to lay off staff and attorney's in other offices. Would someone explain to me when a firm can't afford the staff and attorney's it has what sense does it make to merge with another firm? Seems like suicide to me.

Please send her to the Austin office of K&L...secretary's look like men in drag. I would actually think they were men but the smell of tuna hangs in the air. Fat nasty lazy. Must be a plus with HR. Low life white trash!!

What a joke. Old fart is having clients not pay. Wonder how tight his stinking ass will get when most of his clients don't pay. Hope he jumps out the window like all the rest of the hyper egotistical wealthy scum realize the game is up. Karma baby!

All of you are maggots. Do you think for one minute that any partner knows what the fuck they are doing when it comes to compensation per associate? NO. They care only about their compensation and could give a shit less about anything else. Since the economy (stock market) is in the tank they will lay off anyone they don't like. It is all political and I can't believe you are all so naive to think it is anything but. The scum sucking pigs are losing money so you will lose your job. Get ready to work at Wal-Mart and hope you can find a place cheap enough to live and maybe have some canned tuna or ramen noodles to eat. Forget about raises and bonuses. Unless you are a trust fund baby you better start making nice to mommy and daddy so you will have a roof over your oh so smart and educated asses!

I've never heard of such a ridiculous concept. The firm gives these mostly useless cows a bonus. If they don't get one then I don't think any attorney should feel the least bit obligated to give them anything. What a joke!!

Perfect example that Klgates is ran by an egomaniac douche bag! Avoid this firm at all cost.

Don't be fooled. KLGates is laying off staff and associates. Big cuts coming during 1st quarter of '09. Many unhappy employees. Partners leaving in Texas offices.

Oh you poor pathetic ignorant fools. The prospect that the economy will ever get better is so naive! This is not a downturn. This is the end of your lives as you know it. 2009 we will see massive layoffs and dissolution of most law firms. When clients stop paying legal fees law firms will dissolve. 2009 will make you beg to go back to 2008. Bush has set the course and there is nothing anyone can do about it. Not even President elect Obama.

13 Has the right attitude. All of these firms that have started pay and cut out bonuses are trend setters. The days of pay raises and bonuses are over. End of story. Kind of like the lies that led us to war in Iraq. This is a lead up to pushing your wages down not due to a down economy. It is due to the permanent globalization. Your glass and ivory tower has been shattered as jobs are outsourced and you are no longer needed. You think you are untouchable but you will be touched. Like a freight train. Take your little darlings out of the private schools and give up that golf club membership. Please come back in 2 years if you can afford your high speed internet connection and tell me how wrong I was. LMAO!!!

Let the blood bath begin. There will be no such thing as new associates at Klgates. The low life scum partners that sit on their stinking asses and don't bring in clients and the ones they do don't pay. Ha. The big push to get attorney time in is useless. The Bush global economy has made sure of that. I scoff at you fools who keep thinking anything will get better. Can you not put 0+0 = 0! That is what you will be making after your greedy sick immoral partners decide to get rid of your bloated salary. Don't worry. You will have plenty of company. This economy is ruthless so you "capitalist" out there should expect the same as partners try but fail to save the shit bag palace they have created!

Oh i hear the smallest violin playing for all of you fools. You never know what you had until you LOSE it. Most of you will lose all of it and forced to live like the scum you detest. You will see your wages go poof like the stinking farts that have stained your fat gorging asses. I will celebrate each and every demise of each and every law firm I see go down..and they all will go down! Your stinky cunts and bloated asses will know what the real world is only the real world does not exist. You won't be able to find your fat stinking asses when you realize you have been marginalized and cut off from your worthless dollars. Ask yourself did Usama win?? You bet your worthless ass he did. You idiots supported Bush in a fake war and you will feel the most pain because you think you are rich. LOL. You are a surf in a new world order of dealing with a new Feudalistic State! You idiots will not be allowed past the mote. Lmao!!! Fools

LOL! Austin Klgates paralegals come and go as they please. Useless scum. Work on Weekends to get ot and then brag about how her ot put her daughter through school.
And you think any partner knows or cares.LOL she probably got a bonus. Like anyone who has a brain it is all political. She is fucking the lard ass magic man

Let's see these fat scum in a year. They will be dressed in a wife beater shirt with beards. Why ?? because they will all be UNEMPLOYED and the trust fund will be gone.Hahahahahahahahahahaha. Ready to know what it is to starve? Morons

Hey 11, you are a dumbshit. This is only the beginning idiot. Your job will go. Trust me. All of your jobs are going. You are all greedy fools and you will all go down with the ship of fools. China owns you and unless we nuke them we will be their bitches!!

Worst fucking firm in the world!

this tool has left Klgates. He used them as a prop for his political campaign 2 years ago. NEVER EVER trust a politician. They are all scum. We need a revolution and I don't mean a bloodless one!

When will you idiots realize it is all political? KL Gates did not give staff bonuses and laid off staff in 7 cities. They opened up an office in Frankfurt and word is there will be more staff reduction during the 1st quarter of the year. You might think Dick Cheney is really Pete Kalis.
Slime evil dreadful oxygen thief!!!!

KLGates laying off on a break neck pace!! March and April will be bloody.

You all will be laid off by years end. Get ready. Unless of course you get bailed out by the gov.