Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, headquartered in Dallas, on March 6 laid off 47 associates and 57 paralegals and staff, says firm spokeswoman Sheila Turner.


Turner declines to provide an office-by-office breakdown of the layoffs, but she says lawyers in “most” of the firm’s 13 offices were affected. She says the laid off lawyers include some first-year lawyers. The firm’s Texas offices are in Austin, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio.