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The Week in Law Firm Layoffs

This week in law firm layoffs: Eckert Seamans: 90 lawyers Hogan & Hartson: 30 lawyers Clifford Chance: 50 lawyers DLA…

Good morning! It's the birthday of lawyer and US president John Quincy Adams. He'd be 242 years young today. Here…

Hogan & Hartson has let go 30 senior associates this week, as part of the normal performance evaluation process. Before…

San Francisco, California's Howard Rice cut all associate salaries by 10% last month. Incoming associate salaries were cut from $160,000…

Dallas, Texas-based law firm McKool Smith has nabbed three intellectual property lawyers away from Dewey & LeBoeuf. Dewey IP litigation…

Good morning! Here are the top stories: San Francisco’s Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has informed its 2009 summers associates that…

According to sources, Clifford Chance LLP LLP has lost almost 50 partners since March of this year, most from New…

Becker & Poliakoff has launched a new office in Red Bank, New Jersey. Robert I. Rabinowitz will be managing partner…

Ohio's Shumaker Loop & Kendrick is launching a Sarasota, Florida office in August. The new location will be staffed by…

Chicago-based intellectual property boutique Hallihan IP Partners, founded by William J. Hallihan this Spring, has brought on two veteran attorneys.…

The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana has launched a class action lawsuit against the Indiana Board of Law Examiners,…

San Francisco’s Orrick, which laid off 300 employees in March, has informed its 2009 summers associates that any job offers…