The news that Thomson Reuters announced that they are shutting down the Banks Baldwin Company seems to have flown under the radar. Last week, Thomson Reuters’ spokesman Scott Augustin announced that it will shut down the 207 year old Banks Baldwin Company and shift the work of the 132 laid off employees to New York,
Rumors are floating that half a third (5 of 15) of the West Library Relations Team will laid off by the end of January. Apparently, those being dismissed from the Thomson Reuters group were given notice back in December (so, kudos for keeping it a secret this long!) Those that I’ve talked to say that
Last week, DLA Piper announced that they were laying off 80 attorneys and 100 staffers. Over the past week, we’ve tracked DLA Piper to see which attorneys have been coming and going, and we’ve found some interesting trends that we thought we’d share with you.
Thursday February 12, 2009, a day that most of us in large law firms will remember for a long time. Losing over 800 jobs in law firms in one day is a terrible, terrible thing, but we’ve all been hearing that some firms are doing “stealth” layoffs as well. This really means that there are