Rumor has it that Kirkland & Ellis has laid off around 20 associates in New York. More attorneys were laid off during this year’s annual review than last. Kirkland has made great attempts to avoid lay-offs. The firm has recently done the opposite lately by boosting it’s corporate and finance departments with the hiring of several partner laterals.
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The legal market lost only100 jobs during the month of August, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This may be an indicator that things are looking up, or in the very least, not being so bad. The number of jobs lost does not include the summer associates who went back to law school.
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Greenberg Traurig has added a shareholder to its Los Angeles office. Jan Handzlik joins the Litigation group. She was previously with Howery LLP.
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Baker Botts has recently laid off lawyers in Texas due to declining demand. The last round of layoffs was in March of last year. The firm states that the incoming first years that were promised positions will still have those positions.
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George Miller has jumped from Simpson Thacher to Mayer Brown. Miller joins as as the first project finance partner in the New York office. He makes the 9th lateral partner in New York City thus far in 2009.
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Fish & Richardson has announced the decision to close its Austin, Texas office. The office houses 26 lawyers. The firm will also lay off most of its 14 corporate transactional attorneys firmwide. From Novermber through January, Fish & Richardson has had 49 attorneys and specialists leave the firm due to either lay-offs or their own volition.
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Two international finance attorneys join Cozen O’Connor from Gide Loyrette Nouel. Marianne Rosenberg and Jill Davidson have become members of the firm’s corporate law practice group in the New York office. Rosenberg has over 30 years of experience.
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Katherine “Kit” Addleman is leaving her post as Atlanta regional director of the Securities and Exchange Commission to become a partner at Haynes & Boone, LLP. For the last 20 years, Addleman has worked in four different SEC regional offices. Addleman will join the Dallas office at the end of October.
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Kevin T. Kerns has joined Cozen O’Conner’s commercial litigation practice group from Dechert. At Dechert, Kerns was a partner in the antitrust & competition department. He joins Cozen’s Philadelphia office.
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Dick Armey resigned from DLA Piper due to his connections to a nonprofit group responsible for the nationwide disruptions at town hall meetings about health care reform. Armey ties to both DLA Piper (as a senior policy advisor) and to FreedomWorks (the group that is thought to be behind the unruly disruptions) have been discussed on several center and liberal blogs. DLA maintains Armey left on his own volition.
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