Should You Accept A Biglaw Buyout Package?
Let's meet one secretary who took early retirement, thanks to an enviable financial position.
Voluntary Buyout Watch: McKenna Longs To Lower Headcount
Bad news for secretaries, but good news for clients?
8 Tips For Creating A Comprehensive ‘AI In The Workplace’ Policy
Corporate investment and usage in generative AI technologies continues to accelerate. This article offers eight specific tips to consider when creating an AI usage policy.
Voluntary Buyouts Offered By Another Leading Law Firm
How much would you need to be paid to leave your job?
Nationwide Layoff Watch: Arent You Glad You Still Have A Job?
The layoff contagion continues.
Nationwide Layoff Watch: Expelled Beyond The K&L Gates
How many people are being let go, and what will happen to their jobs?
Nationwide Layoff Watch: Even the Buyouts Are Beautiful at Davis Polk
How much would it take to get you to leave your Biglaw job?
How LexisNexis CourtLink And Lexis Snapshot Deliver Business Wins
These tools demonstrate that information is power.
The Weil Winnowing: A Closer Look At The Layoffs
The large-scale layoffs at Weil: what does it all mean?
Nationwide Layoff Watch: Major Cuts Come To Weil Gotshal
How many lawyers and staff are being laid off? A surprisingly high number, into the triple digits....
Nationwide Layoff Watch: Secretarial Separations Softened By Substantial Severance
That's a rather generous voluntary severance package, isn't it?
Nationwide Layoff Watch: Staff Stricken at Stroock
What's behind the firm's decision?
How MyCase Accounting Transforms Legal Bookkeeping
This complete system built for lawyers simplifies the complex world of law firm finance.
Staff Layoff Watch: Are More Cuts Coming to Fulbright?<br><em>(And could a merger be in the works?)</em>
Is Fulbright & Jaworski gearing up for additional staff layoffs? Perhaps in preparation for merging with another firm?
Why Dewey Owe More Than $400K to a Former Associate?
(And a report on Dewey’s day in bankruptcy court.)
What happened at yesterday's bankruptcy court hearing for Dewey & LeBoeuf? And why does the firm owe more than $400,000 in "severance" to a former associate?
Dewey Have the Ability To Keep Paying Severance? Apparently Not
Dewey & LeBoeuf has cut off severance payments to previously laid-off employees. How are they reacting to the news?
Nationwide Layoff Watch: Getting the Message Across to WilmerHale Associates
Here on Above the Law, we have extensively covered layoffs caused by the shrinking economy. We’ve also covered stealth layoffs. And we’ve covered performance review layoffs that have been done out in the open. But at WilmerHale it looks like we are seeing an example of this: economically induced performance reviews resulting in stealth messages […]