After a decade as a paralegal at Pepe & Hazard, Michael Wallace isn’t having much luck finding another job since being laid-off in January. Recently, the 60-year-old sought to apply…
A Texas judge has dismissed a paralegal’s civil litigation claims of sexual misconduct by a well-known plaintiff personal injury attorney, but allowed her to continue with other allegations.
A judge has issued an injunction barring Morgan & Finnegan from selling or transferring assets in a suit claiming the dissolved law firm defaulted on its loan agreement.
A legal blog is characterizing layoffs at White & Case as a “trifecta” because the law firm has the highest number of lawyer layoffs, staff layoffs and total layoffs.
Two more well-known law firms have confirmed layoffs today: Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker is asking 44 associates and 87 staff members to leave in its U.S. offices, and Chadbourne…
The most recent wave of law firm layoffs comes after law firms delayed job cuts, hoping the economy would improve enough to avoid such drastic measures, according to a law…
Only a year or two ago, when the economy was relatively strong, Aviva Tiegerman had no interest in hearing from the multiple legal recruiters who called her daily at the…
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