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Dark Days At Big Law
Dark Days At Big Law
LawFuel - The Law Jobs and News Wire
. . Big US law firms are still doing the firing, but it's not looking pretty
The 'AboveTheLaw' blog has been doing the tallying, but the wreckage from the recession is taking its heaviest toll ever among the Big Law firms.
- DLA Piper announced it was
laying off 80 lawyers and 100 staff members in the U.S.
- Goodwin Procter announced it was cutting 36 lawyers
and 38 staff members
- Dechert cut 19 lawyers
-
Faegre & Benson (yesterday) axed 29
lawyers
-Holland+Knight might be making Friday 13th a
Black Friday with massive layoffs
-Luce Forward has laid
off 27 people and rescinded offers to summer
associates
-Bryan Cave, having digested Powell Goldstein,
has deferred salary increases and lawyers are holding their
breath over layoffs
-Nixon Peabody has laid off 20
lawyers and 36 staff and summer associates have been 'pushed
back'
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