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Barlows passes BD responsibilities to lawyers after job cuts

Barlow Lyde & Gilbert has laid off three of its five business development personnel as part of an ongoing internal restructuring. The three employees' functions have been taken over by 10 professional support lawyers, headed up by associate director and senior professional support lawyer Marlene McConway. The move is part of a push to make the firm's business development function more driven by partners and fee-earners.
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Pannone's Kingsley steps down to join Manchester's JMW Solicitors

Pannone senior partner Joy Kingsley is set to leave the firm to take up the role of senior partner at Manchester-based JMW Solicitors...
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Mayer Brown cuts 75 US jobs in new round of layoffs

Mayer Brown has laid off 28 associates and counsel and 47 members of staff from its US offices, reports The Am Law Daily. This is the firm's third round of job cuts in around 18 months. The firm let go of 33 associates and counsel in November 2008 and laid off 45 more lawyers last April. The announcement was contained in an internal memo, which states: "Although most of our practices are performing well, overall demand for legal services has not recovered fully, and in today's tight legal job market, voluntary lawyer departures have been significantly lower than our normal levels.
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International Edition

Howrey cuts 94 jobs in new round of layoffs

Howrey has laid off 29 associates and 65 members of staff from its 10 US offices, reports The Am Law Daily. CEO and managing partner Robert Ruyak announced the "reduction-in-force" in a memo to staff. Howrey's six offices in Europe and one office in Asia are unaffected by the downsizing.
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International Edition

Leadership roles in play at Linklaters and Freshfields

Two of the City's leading law firms are preparing for a number of top-level changes, with Linklaters' global corporate head role and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's senior partner, managing partner and chief executive positions to be decided this year. Linklaters corporate chief David Barnes is to step down in April after five years in the role, with the magic circle firm expected to make a decision on his successor in the spring.
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International Edition

Thoughts on 2010 – survival for those who aren't retiring

It was another conference where the divide between law firms and clients was being gently massaged, when the conversation turned harsh and funny. One general counsel was clearly frustrated. He'd lived through a year of deep budget cuts and layoffs. He'd smiled though the 'do more with less' lecture from his boss. He'd brought more work in-house, switched a few of his law firms, begged them for new approaches, and still felt, as he summed it up, screwed. The staffing by the firms was out of kilter, the prices too high, they didn't obey the 'supply chain' rules as other vendors did. He was tired of it, and beginning to eye his company's procurement officers as the solution. Maybe, he said with a twinkle in his eye, it was time "to let those animals at some of our service providers".
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International Edition

In depth: Law firm management

Alex Novarese and Alex Aldridge look at how a handful of guys at Harvard Business School helped law firm leaders get back into education, while Charlotte Edmond canvasses a sceptical profession on consultants...
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International Edition

Law firm management: The hard sell

"A consultant is a man who asks you for your watch and then tells you the time with it." Probably one of the more polite descriptions by one managing partner of the band of consultants circling law firms as the recession batters a profession that had grown used to unbroken growth. Though the legal sector has not been a major target for the consultancy industry until very recently, there are an increasing number of widely varying consultants aiming to advise firms on everything from marketing, client relationship management, IT general strategy and everything inbetween.
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Legal Week

Law firm management: The hard sell

"A consultant is a man who asks you for your watch and then tells you the time with it." Probably one of the more polite descriptions by one managing partner of the band of consultants circling law firms as the recession batters a profession that had grown used to unbroken growth. Though the legal sector has not been a major target for the consultancy industry until very recently, there are an increasing number of widely varying consultants aiming to advise firms on everything from marketing, client relationship management, IT general strategy and everything inbetween.
65 minute read

International Edition

DLA makes new round of layoffs in Middle East as market slumps

DLA Piper has made a new round of job cuts in the Middle East, with the firm set to make another 9% of staff in the region redundant in response to the continued deterioration in the markets. The latest round of cuts, which follow a review of the business, equate to seven lawyers and 10 support staff losing their jobs with effect from Monday (7 December). The firm did not provide a breakdown of the job losses but said the majority of the layoffs were in Dubai and affected the construction, real estate, project finance and development projects teams.
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