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I don't like Mondays

By Richard Binder

Four major firms announced job cuts on Monday, totaling more than 300 attorneys and 522 support staff.

White & Case plans to cut a total of 200 associates and 200 administrative staff. Morgan, Lewis & Bockius cut 55 attorneys and 161 staffers. King & Spalding cut 37 associate spots, as well as 85 support staff firmwide, while K&L Gates eliminated 36 associates and 76 staffers in its U.S. offices.

Though mass layoffs have become numbingly routine over the past several weeks, the announcements contained something new: White & Case said it is now looking at slashing partners. Meanwhile, Morgan, Lewis is pushing all its first-year start dates back a year, to October 2010.

The firm joined several others that have offered deferred hires an option to work in public interest law. It will pay graduating law school students a $5,000-per-month stipend for those who find a position at a public interest organization.

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Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on March 10, 2009 (boomark / email).