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?
Legal Is Changing. And NeoSummit Is Where The Future Is Being Built.
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.
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?
Labor and Employment Federal Litigation Trends 2026
Drawing on more than a decade of data, the report equips law firms and corporate legal teams with actionable insights to better assess risk, refine strategy, and anticipate outcomes in today’s evolving workplace disputes.
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?
Opus 2 Steps Up Its AI Game With Acquisition Of A Legal Tech Startup
With the addition of Uncover’s technology, the litigation software is delivering rapid innovation.
Staff Layoff Watch: Are More Cuts Coming to Fulbright?
(And could a merger be in the works?)
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 […]