Bryan Cave slid off a ranking of the top 20 legal advisers for mid-market deals despite working on $1.24 billion worth of the mergers and acquisitions in 2009. The St. Louis firm worked on 18 U.S. mid-market deals, according to ...

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U.S. law firms, including Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe; Shearman & Sterling; and WolfBlock, are abandoning tradition as they cut costs in the deepening recession by imposing merit pay, slashing salaries and generally putting an end to decades of associate entitlement. ...

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Latham & Watkins, the fourth-largest U.S. law firm, is offering incoming lawyers $75,000 to take the year off. Latham, which fired 190 lawyers and 250 staff last week, said it is pushing back the start date for all incoming lawyers ...

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Latham & Watkins, the fourth-largest U.S. law firm, fired 190 lawyers and 250 staff as the economic slump erodes demand for its services. The cuts, amounting to 12 percent of the firm’s associates and 10 percent of its paralegals and ...

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