Akin Gump has announced the hiring of partners Nicholas Porritt and William White for its litigation practice in Washington DC. Porritt comes...
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Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal plans to cut associate salaries, beginning June 1st. First year salaries, previously a Biglaw standard $160,000, will be...
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Founding partner Thomas Kummer and managing partner Michael Bonner are leaving Las Vegas, Nevada’s Kummer Kaempfer, after the collapse of merger talks...
Pittsburgh’s Eckert Seamans has brought on five lawyers from Ballard Spahr. Joseph Nealon, Jeffrey Larroca and Constantinos Panagopoulas join as partners. Jennifer...
Good morning! Hope you had a good Memorial Day! Last week in law firm layoffs: only 40 lawyers, 118 staff Ropes &...
Pepper Hamilton has expanded its labor & employment practice with the hiring of two former Wolf Block attorneys, Richard Reibstein and Russell...
Greenberg Traurig has expanded its real estate practice with the hiring away of real estate fund attorneys Sanford Presant and Louis Vitali...
This week in (amazingly, thankfully few) law firm layoffs: Ropes & Gray: 40 lawyers Blake Lapthorn: 33 staff Addleshaw Goddard: 85 staff...
In March, London’s Allen & Overy announced it would retain only 70% of its trainees for September 2009 and March 2010. Now...
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Covington & Burling has brought on Demetrios Kouzoukas and David Kornblau. Kouzoukas was principal associate deputy secretary of the Department of Health...
The American Lawyer has assembled a list of AmLaw 200 law firms by percentage layoffs since January, 2008. More than 2,900 attorney...
Blank Rome hired former Hodgson Russ partner Jeffrey Rinde, and former Wolf Block partner Bruce Lesser, last month. Rinde advises Chinese and...
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