Biglaw Firms Kept Associates With Low Hours Employed For Much Longer Than Expected Before Announcing Layoffs
Eek. Should this have happened sooner?
[It’s somewhat surprising] how long some of these firms have been able to keep their associates despite them billing significantly low hours over the past six-plus months.
This was probably driven a little bit by the extraordinary revenues of 2021 but also the hope that the economy would rebound, but this just hasn’t happened in a meaningful way.
— Summer Eberhard, a partner and legal recruiter at Major, Lindsey & Africa, in comments given to the American Lawyer, concerning the recent layoffs en masse at firms like Cooley and Goodwin, both of which cited a current and projected slowdown in demand for letting employees go.
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