Katten to Reinstate Salaries, Eliminate Furloughed Positions (1)

Katten Muchin Rosenman is the latest Big Law firm to reverse salary cuts made earlier in the pandemic, while also planning to eliminate some lawyers and staff that had been furloughed, the Chicago-founded firm said in a statement Monday.

Katten said by Dec. 1 it will have fully restored all lawyer and business professional salaries that had been partially reduced in April. Those employees will receive “catch-up” payments for the earlier reductions, the firm said.

The firm is also eliminating the positions of “a limited number” of attorneys, as well as previously furloughed business professionals. The remaining furloughed employees, whose ...