Nationwide Layoff Watch: Even the Buyouts Are Beautiful at Davis Polk
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Which offices other than Boston and Palo Alto were affected by the cuts? Plus an interesting email from last year about hiring at WilmerHale.
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.
This major law firm denies that it's engaging in "layoffs." Here are the facts; you be the judge.
Are legal secretaries an endangered species? Yet another large law firm makes cuts.
The large-scale layoffs at Weil: what does it all mean?
Which firm is throwing staffers overboard to prevent itself from capsizing?
Takeaways from a Legalweek panel on evolving malpractice risks.
How many lawyers and staff are being laid off? A surprisingly high number, into the triple digits....
That's a rather generous voluntary severance package, isn't it?
Sources report significant lawyer and staff layoffs at Dickstein Shapiro. What might be driving the cuts?
In the words of one expert, "given the rise of the machines, human labor is worth less and less in the marketplace." Cue the latest news in staff layoffs....
Most law firms, big and small, that have adopted AI are making the same mistake: they bought a tool for their lawyers and called it a strategy.
How much longer can layoffs, especially staff layoffs and "stealth" layoffs of lawyers, go on?
Staffers and lawyers are heading out the door, in the wake of a management change.
Kramer Levin and Sullivan & Cromwell are trimming headcount.
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