Photo: Pra Chid/Shutterstock.com Adjusting the COVID-19 Response: How Law Firms Are Altering Austerity Measures
Some firms are restoring pay after reducing salaries earlier in the year, while others make additional cuts.
December 28, 2020 at 09:00 AM
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Many law firms implemented pay cuts, layoffs and other austerity measures in the spring and summer in response to economic pressures the coronavirus pandemic created. Months later, some of them have either rolled back some austerity measures or made additional cuts, or some combination of the two.
We will continue to update this page as more firms announce changes. For a more complete description of the austerity measures implemented earlier this year, see our past coverage here. Please send any updates and additions to: [email protected]
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- Ropes & Gray
- Sullivan & Worcester
- Davidoff Hutcher & Citron LLP
- Crowell & Moring LLP
- Hogan Lovells
- Stoel Rives
- Pryor Cashman Sherman & Flynn
- Locke Lord LLP
- Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.
- Duane Morris
- Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney
- Davis Gilbert
- Hughes Hubbard & Reed
- Littler Mendelson
- Winston & Strawn LLP
- Seyfarth Shaw
- Venable
- Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC
- Munck Wilson Mandala
- Stroock & Stroock & Lavan
- McDermott Will & Emery
- Smith, Gambrell & Russell
- Dickinson Wright
- Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner
- Husch Blackwell
- Allen & Overy
- Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
- Cahill Gordon & Reindel
- Perkins Coie
- Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
- Holland & Hart LLP
- Day Pitney
- Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
- Shearman & Sterling LLP
- Arnstein Lehr
- Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone
- Kelley Drye & Warren
- Baker McKenzie
- Squire Patton Boggs
- K&L Gates
- Loeb & Loeb
- Taft Stettinius & Hollister
- Dorsey & Whitney
- Schiff Hardin
- Holland & Knight LLP
- Troutman Sanders
- Dentons
- Reed Smith
- Ballard Spahr
- Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
- Nixon Peabody
- Vedder Price
- Wombel Bond Dickinson
- Baker & Hostetler LLP
- Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton
- Davis Wright Tremaine
- Arent Fox
- Blank Rome
- Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
- Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP
- Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin, P.C.
- Mayer Brown
- Fox Rothschild
- Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
- Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr
- Katten Muchin Rosenman
- Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson
- Cozen O'Connor
- Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
- Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
- Eversheds Sutherland
- Ice Miller
- Greenspoon Marder
- Thompson Hine
- Clayton Utz
- Clark Hill
- Baker Botts
- Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft
- Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
- Lowenstein Sandler
- Fisher Phillips
- Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
- Vinson & Elkins
- Norton Rose Fulbright
- Goldberg Segalla
- Pepper Hamilton
- Shook Hardy & Bacon
- Goodwin Procter
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