Comments on: This Week in Layoffs – 4/3/09

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:27:14 +0000

And they weren't going to…. they try to keep everything under wraps… like i said before this is a corrupt law firm!

By: KJV

KJV — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:25:51 +0000

And again in April!!! I was one of the cuts!!!

By: lawshucks

lawshucks — Sun, 10 May 2009 23:14:55 +0000

We'd be happy to inquire further. Send us an email tips at lawshucks dot com and we'll look into it. There hasn't been anything reported from the firm yet.

By: Mary

Mary — Sun, 10 May 2009 15:00:07 +0000

You should check your facts, Winston & Strawn did have several layoffs in two consecutive weeks. They have been offering buyout packages to secretaries who are 55 years and older, been employed over 15 years. They are letting go wonderful, highly experienced people. They are not the same law firm they were years ago. It is all based on greed. Where are all these secretaries supposed to work if law firms keep letting people go? This does not help with the economic recovery plan it only makes the country dive deeper into a recession.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:24:27 +0000

And, to some degree, in February '09. W&S brought in temp-to-hire in Chicago in late January with an intention to train up and hire on the right person. The word came down from on high by the 20th to cut all contractual, regardless of need.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 03:38:36 +0000

W&S also cut support staff end of 2008 and again in January '09.

By: Econ Guy

Econ Guy — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 13:57:53 +0000

To be a depression, there must be a steady decrease in GDP for a year or more. And the total decrease must be 10% or more. But, hey, maybe we're headed there…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:20:01 +0000

On W&S being only firm in Chicago without announced layoffs … compare W&S's total associates in the Chicago office from their Nalp form as of 2/1/09 (277) with the total number of associates in the Chicago office from a search on their website (217). I'm guessing that 60 people didn't voluntarily leave over the last two months. Just sayin'. But I'm not at W&S, so I have no idea whats going on there.

By: ABC

ABC — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:43:47 +0000

Well… maybe the measly three year mugging at law school doesn't merit so many millions after all. At least medical doctors cure people and practise an actual science. The PhDs have always had it hard, working long hours with zero job security (before the 10 year long road to tenure) for almost no money.

The least educated out of the three blue blooded professional streams: PhD, MD and JD are the lawyers. They also make the most money, usually by suing for damages over coffee being too hot or ice cream being too cold.

Well suck it up friends. A lot of people die when there is a famine and so do a lot of animals and we feel bad for them. But if malaria carrying mosquitoes were to die in the famine, no one would care.

By: lawshucks

lawshucks — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:06:21 +0000

That's why I went to law school, not business school. That and the intro to accounting class only being offered at 8:30 a.m. MWF.

Thanks for the correction.