Norton Rose has started the process of making its staff full-time once again. The first mention of the part-time plan was mentioned in March of this year with the aim to save jobs. The firm believes to have saved about 85 jobs all-together. Norton Rose estimates that the number of part-time workers has reduced by 15%. Many of the new full-time employees are in the corporate and banking departments.

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Brown Rudnick has added a corporate partner to its New York office. John F. Storz was most recently a partner at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP. Storz focuses on general corporate, investment fun transactions, corporate reorganizations, public/private equity and debt securities offerings, investment fund transactions and joint ventures.

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Kaye Scholer is allowing half of its deferred first-year associates to do pro-bono work for a reduction in salary. 20 new lawyers have entered into this agreement and will be paid $60,000 for their efforts. While Kaye Scholer decided to keep its associates close, many firms who have delayed first-years offered the option to work at non-profits for a stipend.

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Dykema Gossett P.L.L.C. has conducted a survey about the merger and acquisitions market in the U.S. The survey illustrates that industry authorities are much more hopeful about the state and future of the market. Last year, about 50 percent of the survey takers predicted that it would be weak for the next 12 months. In the 2009 survey, 81 percent predict that the M&A market will be neutral or improve immensely over the next year.

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