Are Layoffs Looming If Some Firms Match Milbank’s Associate Salary Increase?
Cross your fingers and pray that your firm doesn't follow Milbank -- lest you enjoy the schadenfreude of layoffs.
Cross your fingers and pray that your firm doesn't follow Milbank -- lest you enjoy the schadenfreude of layoffs.
Sorry, associates, but your salaries are just too high.
Legal and operational leaders are gathering May 6–7 in Fort Lauderdale to confront the questions the industry hasn't answered—with a keynote from Amanda Knox setting the tone.
Which firm is threatening to pull the plug on partners' quarterly profit drawings?
Peter "The King" Kalis breaks his silence; what does he have to say?
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