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Venable Cuts Compensation for All Lawyers & Staff

Baltimore’s Venable is cutting salaries across the board, affecting all lawyers and staff, including partners. Base compensation for our first…

Florida’s Akerman Senterfitt has brought on five new lawyers for its health care practice. Shareholders Bill Crenshaw and Ralph Caccia,…

Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, which in April deferred start dates for first-year associates to February 2010, will cut all associate…

Warren, New-Jersey-based law firm Ventantonio & Wildenhain has brought on two new attorneys. Vincent D. Commisa joins as of counsel.…

Bloomfield Hills, Michigan-based law firm Ackerman Ackerman & Dynkowski has opened a new satellite office in Washington DC. Managing partner…

This week Morgan Lewis lost energy partner Jim Glasgow to Pillsbury, but gained Baker Botts' global Oil & Gas Practice…

BuckleySandler, founded in March when two Skadden partners left the firm's Washington DC office, has grown to 55 lawyers with…

Labor law firm Ogletree Deakins has brought on two associates from Kiesewetter Wise for its New Orleans, Louisiana labor &…

Kaye Scholer is cutting pay for associates who bill under 1,600 hours this year. First- and second-years who aren't on…

Cozen O’Connor added two lawyers to its New York office last week. Angelo Savino joins from Mound Cotton as a…

A new study by management consultant firm KermaPartners reveals that increasingly, law firm partners are taking jobs with less profitable…

In May we reported that Las Vegas, Nevada’s Kummer Kaempfer was losing founding partner Thomas Kummer and managing partner Michael…