It’s been a busy first year here at Law Shucks. Right from the beginning, our plan was to report on stories of interest to the population of big-firm lawyers and alumni.
We started out covering general legal news, but realized pretty quickly that a trend was brewing: layoffs. Above the Law, the WSJ Law Blog, and a few [...]
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Our First Year Part 2 – January 09
– January 12, 2010
Our First Year Part 1 – December 08
It’s been a busy first year here at Law Shucks. Right from the beginning, our plan was to report on stories of interest to the population of big-firm lawyers and alumni.
We started out covering general legal news, but realized pretty quickly that a trend was brewing: layoffs. Above the Law, the WSJ Law Blog, and [...]
– January 5, 2010
Happy Birthday To Me!
It’s been a year since we said “Hello, world!“
Take a look through the archives and see how far we’ve come.
Considering the time of year we started, we’ll just recap our first year in a regular year-end review, but we thought we’d just announce the actual anniversary.
Here’s what we posted on that first day:
Korb to Sullivan & [...]
– December 11, 2009
The Month in Layoffs – November 09
Perhaps October was the anomaly, as November’s layoffs were the second fewest in 2009.
We thought that might be the result of firms’ reticence to lay people off around the holidays, but there was no such reluctance this time last year, layoffs were way down compared to November 2008 as well.
The details, after the jump.
– December 3, 2009
Top Posts for September 09
Below are our top posts for September. As usual, we don’t include our regular features like This Week in Layoffs and The Month in Layoffs in the Top 10 posts for the month. A number of posts from the Laid Off Diary would also make the ranking, but we exclude that too. Go to its dedicated page [...]
– October 1, 2009
This Week in Layoffs – 9/18/09
A piece in Wednesday’s WSJ brought into stark relief the futility of using unemployment data for any sort of analysis, as we futilely do every week. Even the states and the federal government can’t agree on how the numbers should be calculated. Not surprisingly, the assumptions being made are largely influenced by the message the [...]
– September 20, 2009
Deidre Dare Turns to Oldest Profession
Deidre Dare is a blogger’s dream. She’s the former Allen & Overy associate who was fired for writing erotica. First, we got to write about her when the story broke. Then, she preemptively announced that if she was fired, she’d fight it. Then she actually was fired. Bitter Lawyer sat down with her to get [...]
– September 18, 2009
This Week in Layoffs – 5/22/09
No! So close! We had this whole piece written on the optimistic assumption that this would be the first full week without a layoff since the end of 2008.
Then Ropes & Gray went and ruined it for everyone.
The slowdown of law firm layoffs reflects the trend in the broader economy. Initial jobless claims were down [...]
– May 22, 2009
Former Partner Sues Edwards Angell
Former partner Stephen R. Connoni has sued Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge, his former firm. He claims they fired him from his job as a contract (or capital, it’s not clear – see paragraph 6 of the complaint) partner and failed him to pay his full comp.
EAPD has had two layoffs recently: 25 attorneys and [...]
– May 1, 2009
This Week in Layoffs – 2/27/09
This week seemed like it would start off relatively quietly after recent hysteria. The week ending February 20 was the first week in which major law firms laid off more than 1,000 people in a single week and, of course, the week prior to that we had “Black Thursday” or the “Valentine’s Day Massacre” (although [...]
– February 27, 2009
This Week in Layoffs – 2/20/09
Two major stories this week. One at least brings a little humor to the dreadful situation for its absurdity; the other is just more horror on a new scale. Pillsbury has been forced to confirm layoffs of 15-20 lawyers, after David Lat broke the story of corporate head Bob Robbins (Cornell AB ‘72, Harvard JD ‘75) being [...]
– February 20, 2009
Big Cuts at A&O
Allen & Overy is cutting up to 247 people – 47 partners, 100 200 attorneys, and 100 200 staff. Mostly in London. That vaults the firm into our Top 10 list (Total Layoffs) at #3#1, behind ahead of Magic Circle peer Linklaters and Tampa’s Holland & Knight.
More interestingly, it means that the top 3 firms by attorneys laid [...]
– February 19, 2009
The Last Word on Deidre Dare (Hopefully)
Bitter Lawyer spoke with Deidre Dare, bloggers’ favorite lawyer-turned-sex novelist. Sophomoric as these articles are, readers seem oddly fascinated by her. Bitter Lawyer at least shares a common background with us and asks a lot of questions lawyers would find interesting. She seems pretty happy with the way things have turned out.
[BL:] Your life has [...]
– February 11, 2009
Lawyer/Sex Blogger Actually Fired; Presumably Will Fight
Deidre Dare, the sex blogger and project-finance lawyer of recent reknown, has been fired by Allen & Overy. She will now have the actual opportunity to fight the sacking, despite confusion over our writing.
The firm’s statement (courtesy of The Lawyer):
“Following our normal disciplinary process, we found that Ms Dare’s behaviour – in publishing the material she did [...]
– February 2, 2009
Wannabe Sex Novelist Vows to Fight Sacking
The Times (UK) has tracked down Deidre Dare, the Allen & Overy transactional lawyer/sex writer, about whom we wrote previously.
Alas, we were almost deprived of her prose:
Born in Brooklyn to a Russian-Jewish father and an Irish mother, Dare, whose real surname is Clark, always dreamt of becoming a writer. She penned her first novel at [...]
– January 27, 2009
Aspiring A&O Sex Novelist Forced to Put down Pen
“I have no intention of giving everything to a cock on a horse with a bright diamond ring.”
Deidre Dare is an American lawyer working in Allen & Overy’s Moscow office and that’s her motto. In her free time, she has been serializing her novel Expat on her website. The novel recounts the sexual activities of [...]
– January 21, 2009
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