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Mayer Brown Lays Off 55 Lawyers & Staff

Chicago's Mayer Brown has laid off 55 lawyers and support staff from its London office. A breakdown of the layoffs…

Hood Vores & Allwood has laid off two lawyers and four support staff, the result of a redundancy consultation begun…

Partners at Clifford Chance, which we now learn for the first time laid off 35 support staff in New York…

Denton Wilde Sapte has cut 37 lawyers and 39 staff. The redundancy process was completed last week, after a consultation…

Blake Lapthorn has laid off 20 people in its second redundancy consultation. The firm, which laid off 33 people at…

London' Simmons & Simmons is freezing associate pay starting May 1st. The firm is creating a special bonus pool to…

Manchester, UK's Halliwells has launched a fourth redundancy consultation, with up to 30 jobs under threat. The firm’s entire 39-member…

Edinburgh's Dundas & Wilson, Scotland's largest law firm, will cut up to 50 jobs across its three offices as work…

Blake Dawson will announce redundancies tomorrow, Friday the 13th, with "less than 100" people affected. The firm says the cuts…

Two top California law schools have created a DC internship program to expose law students to the intricacies of law-…

London's Allen & Overy will only retain 70% of its trainees for September 2009 and March 2010. The Magic Circle…

Burges Salmon has announced a redundancy consultation that could see 18 lawyers lose their jobs. The firm has also launched…