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Dechert Sees Revenues, Profits Down

Philadelphia's Dechert has become the latest Am Law 100 firm to announce a decline in revenues and profits for 2008.…

Tipsters to Above the Law report that "at least 50" lawyers and staffers have been laid off from Thompson Hine.…

Shearman & Sterling reports a 4.9% drop in revenues to $876 million for 2008, and a 9.6% fall in profits…

Adorno & Yoss is expanding its Atlanta office at a time when many national firms are instituting hiring freezes or…

Law firm Cooley Godward Kronish has established a fellowship at Harvard Law School’s Cyber Law Clinic at the Berkman Center…

Former Ambassador David Gross, the US Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy, will join Wiley Rein as a partner…

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is asking some of its trainees to push back their start dates with the firm. A number…

Cardiff's Darwin Gray has expanded its commercial litigation team. Chris Davies, a newly qualified solicitor, will be assisting partners Jason…

Former Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey announced this afternoon that he will join the law firm Debevoise & Plimpton as…

Dunlap Codding recently added two associates, John Behles and Joseph D. Maxey; and added Charles "Chic" Krukiel of counsel. Dunlap…

Former New York State chief judge Judith S. Kaye has joined Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom as of counsel.…

The American Bar Association's House of Delegates voted yesterday to amend its Model Rule of Professional Conduct governing conflicts of…