A Louisiana steel mill unexpectedly said it is laying off 376 employees and shutting down its factory as the governor suggested tariffs may have played a role in the closure. Workers at Bayou Steel Group in LaPlace were shocked when ...

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A Louisiana steel mill unexpectedly said it is laying off 376 employees and shutting down its factory as the governor suggested tariffs may have played a role in the closure. Workers at Bayou Steel Group in LaPlace were shocked when ...

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The 1,200-attorney firm was ranked the 13th in gross revenue last year by the American Lawyer, a trade magazine, at $1.23 billion.

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Any expectation that state and local governments would use the worst fiscal crisis since the Great Depression to reduce their biggest expenditures is proving to be wishful thinking. Companies have cut 7.3 million jobs, 6.29 percent, since business employment peaked ...

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Slumping revenue and the sale of a major St. Louis company took their toll on the attorney rolls at some of Missouri’s largest corporate legal departments in 2009. The changes are reflected in Missouri Lawyers Weekly’s updated directory of in-house ...

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MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. said last week that it will cease production of silicon crystal ingots and wafers at its facilities in O’Fallon and Sherman, Texas. Shutting down the production lines at these two facilities will cost approximately 540 employees ...

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Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal let go fewer than 36 attorneys in a second round of layoffs. “Like every firm, we have practice areas that are strong, and those that have weaker client demand than anticipated,” the firm said in an ...

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Husch Blackwell Sanders has let go 10 attorneys in practices hit hard by the recession. The cuts were firmwide at the 650-attorney Husch Blackwell, Co-chairman Joe Conran said. “We’re constantly monitoring attorney staffing to make sure we match the level ...

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The Above the Law blog today cited Heather Cole’s story on Husch Blackwell Sanders letting go 10 of its attorneys. A subscriber passed along the story to Above the Law, which also included some unflattering commentary from the submitter about ...

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State courts across the country are implementing numerous and varied cost-cutting measures – from reducing court hours to implementing furloughs and hiring freezes to consolidating courts — in response to budget cuts brought on by the economic recession, according to ...

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The 16th Judicial Circuit has accepted buyout offers from 20 county-funded employees and says no layoffs are planned at this time. Last month, the court called for certain categories of employees to consider a “voluntary retirement/resignation incentive program.” In a ...

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