Above the Law was the first to reveal upcoming layoffs at Pillsbury when it told of a tipster who overheard a lawyer discussing the plan in Feb 24, 2009 5:25 PM CST
For years, because of a stronger economy and a lack of enforcement, the Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification Act wasn’t on some employers’ radar screens.
Amidst the latest news of law firm layoffs and salary restructuring announcements, a Chicago-based business law firm has temporarily imposed a 10-percent pay cut on partners and associates.
Asked by a friend who is a lawyer to write a statement saying that she wasn’t drunk when she left a bar, New York Supreme Court Justice Joseph Makowski reportedly…
Perkins Coie has sued a former associate in its Menlo Park, Calif., office. The law firm contends that he reneged on a written agreement to repay up to $30,000 that…
The new chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission is one of several lawyers joining the administration who are getting big lump-sum payments from their previous employers.
When Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft reported a decline of 30 percent in partner profits, its chairman W. Christopher White noted that average profits per equity partner stood at $1.88 million.
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