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Update: Ashcroft Forms Nationwide Law Firm

This week we reported that former Attorney General John Ashcroft would found a new law firm. Today the move is…

Mayer Brown announced at the beginning of April that it was deferring most incoming associates to January, 2010, with a…

Wiley Rein is bumping down underperforming associates to a lower salary track. Associates not on track to bill 1,950 hours…

Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney has announced that start dates for first-year associates will be deferred from September 2009 to February…

We've reported here and here about hires of former Wolf Block attorneys by Philadelphia’s Duane Morris. Now Duane Morris has…

Lawyers from the Washington, DC and Boston offices of now-defunct Wolf Block will join the Columbia, South Carolina office of…

Washington DC's Howrey has laid off 25 secretarial staffers. Cuts came in all offices except Palo Alto and New York.…

Former North Carolina Democratic Governor Mike Easley is joining the Raleigh offices of Richmond, Virginia's McGuire Woods. Two former aides…

Arent Fox has hired away a seven-lawyer telecommunications group from Womble Carlyle. The group, making up roughly half of Womble's…

The Harrisburg, Pennsylvania office of Pittsburgh's Eckert Seamans has hired 12 lawyers from the defunct Wolf Block’s Harrisburg office. The…

Eversheds has launched a redundancy consultation targeting 10 lawyers in its real estate practice. The firm may find new positions…

Former chairperson Mark Alderman will follow 65 fellow Wolf Block refugees to Cozen O’Connor. Apparently you can run your firm…