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Law Firm Job Cuts Continue - Closer To Home Too
Monday, 30 March 2009, 4:47 pm | LawFuel
Law firm job cuts are now becoming law firm salary cuts as US and UK multinationals look at more creative ways of dealing with the economic crisis by doing things like cutting their salary caps for associates, reducing or altering recruitment plans, ... More >>
Wolf Block have decided to wind up their business
Tuesday, 24 March 2009, 12:35 pm | LawFuel
Wolf Block partners met at 1p.m. today to discuss the fate of the firm and have issued a statement that they voted to commence an "orderly unwinding of the firm’s business." More >>
Kiwi Lawyers Seeking Out Legal Jobs In London
Wednesday, 18 March 2009, 1:50 pm | LawFuel
New, fitter and leaner law firms may provide additional hiring opportunities for lawyers from Australia and New Zealand after the beginning of the next financial year, according to an exclusive report in the legal jobs website LawFuel.co.nz. More >>
New York Attorney Dreier Charged With Laundering
Wednesday, 18 March 2009, 12:44 pm | LawFuel
LEV L. DASSIN, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the return today of a Superseding Indictment against MARC DREIER, the former Managing Partner of the New York law firm Dreier LLP. The Superseding ... More >>
Bell Gully Leads In Chambers Global Names
Wednesday, 18 March 2009, 11:03 am | LawFuel
Bell Gully has topped the New Zealand law firm rankings for the sixth consecutive year in leading international legal publication Chambers Global. More >>
More Legal Jobs Cuts Stateside
Tuesday, 10 March 2009, 12:59 pm | LawFuel
The law job layoffs just seem to get worse in the US where a slew of layoffs has been announced by three major US firms and involving cuts to over 730 law jobs, and legal support staff. More >>
DLA Piper Lays Off Hong Kong Lawyers
Wednesday, 4 March 2009, 9:51 am | LawFuel
DLA Piper, the international legal conglomerate and associated with New Zealand firm DLA Phillips Fox, announced that it is laying off 20 lawyers and 34 staff across its Asian offices in response to "the deteriorating economic climate." More >>
Dubai Law - Suddenly An Arid Area for Law Jobs
Friday, 27 February 2009, 1:03 pm | LawFuel
The Mid-East was seen as something of a safe, lucrative haven for lawyers - no more More >>
Kiwi Lawyers Stay At Home As Jobs Market Shrinks
Wednesday, 25 February 2009, 11:42 am | LawFuel
The Big OE has become a bigger stay-at-home for lawyers wanting to spread their wings More >>
Dark Days At Big Law
Friday, 13 February 2009, 12:55 pm | LawFuel
Big US law firms are still doing the firing, but it's not looking pretty More >>
Man Guilty Of Misappropriating Over $29 Million
Wednesday, 4 February 2009, 2:36 pm | LawFuel
R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Michael K. Fithen, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Secret Service, Miami Field Division, announced that defendant Ricardo Figueredo, a former employee of Bank of ... More >>
New York Lawyer Indicted Over $400 + Million Fraud
Friday, 30 January 2009, 3:05 pm | LawFuel
LEV L. DASSIN, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MARC DREIER, the former Managing Partner of the New York law firm Dreier LLP, was indicted today on charges stemming from an alleged fraud against ... More >>
The Law Firm Recession Has Arrived
Friday, 30 January 2009, 3:04 pm | LawFuel
For years, the law firm Heller Ehrman LLP used a goofy coat of arms inside its offices: a laurel wreath, scales of justice and a Latin quotation, elvem ipsum etiam vivere. Rough translation: Elvis Lives. In ate Septemver, Heller Ehrman went the way of Elivs. ... More >>
Multimillion Dollar Bank Fraud Scheme Charges
Friday, 23 January 2009, 4:06 pm | LawFuel
LawFuel - The Law Jobs and Legal NewsWire R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Michael K. Fithen, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Secret Service, Miami Field Division, announced today that defendant Ricardo ... More >>
New Appointments at Simpson Grierson
Thursday, 22 January 2009, 4:08 pm | LawFuel
Simpson Grierson is delighted to announce four promotions to Senior Associate and two promotions to Senior Legal Executive. More >>
The lawyer redundancy count is going up
Thursday, 22 January 2009, 12:36 pm | LawFuel
Among the latest British firms to announce redundancies is Denton Wilde Sapte, which has announced up to 80 redundancies across most departments excluding competition, tax and probably insolvency areas. More >>
Largest Pharma Fraud Whistleblower Case in U.S
Friday, 16 January 2009, 12:27 pm | LawFuel
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 15 -- Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly & Company ("Lilly") will pay federal and state governments more than $1.4 billion to remedy a wide-ranging, off-label marketing scheme for its prescription drug, Zyprexa(R). This settlement ... More >>
Clifford Chance is set to cut up to 80 lawyers
Friday, 9 January 2009, 3:21 pm | LawFuel
News that major law firm Clifford Chance is set to cut up to 80 lawyers from its London complement has sent nervous shivers about the London legal market, as reported in LawFuel.co.nz - see: Clifford Chance Cutbacks More >>
Tougher Times Ahead For Kiwi Law Firms
Friday, 19 December 2008, 12:17 pm | LawFuel
LawFuel, the legal jobs site has spoken with a number of recruiters and law firm heads who indicate that there is considerable belt-tightening occurring. A significant number of legal executives involved in conveyancing have already been released from ... More >>
Chen Palmer appoints Senior Associates
Thursday, 11 December 2008, 4:33 pm | LawFuel
Steven Condie and Marcus Ganley will be joining Chen Palmer in early 2009 as senior associates. More >>
