Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has restructured its legal support services, a move that eliminated about 35 secretarial positions, mostly in its office in Palo Alto, Calif.
Bankruptcy filings are falling on a nationwide basis, forcing some law firms to cut the size of their restructuring practices or reallocate their lawyers.
Lackluster enrollment is being blamed for a $4.4 million budget cut at Thomas Jefferson School of Law. The cut means that 12 adjunct faculty and staff members at the San…
As many U.S. law firms struggle to find their footing in the post-recession era marked by seismic change, Washington, D.C.-based Patton Boggs has drawn up a new game plan.
Despite reports this week of planned lawyer layoffs by Goodwin Procter and Weil Gotshal and Manges, as well as a 17-partner exit at Patton Boggs, managing partners of six major…
Lawyers and support staffers at Weil, Gotshal & Manges got a first-hand lesson about “the new normal” on Monday, delivered in an email from executive partner and chairman Barry Wolf.
Three high-ranking executives are leaving Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, just a few months after Mitchell Zuklie took over as chairman of the law firm.
After last week’s layoff of 22 lawyers, a Detroit prosecutor says her office is stretched too thin to cover all traffic court and domestic violence cases.