Wake Up Call: Analyst Expects Thousands of Law Firm Layoffs Due to Covid

June 2, 2020, 1:02 PM UTC

In today’s column, law firms, in-house lawyers, and companies reacted to the police killing of an unarmed black man in Minneapolis and the violence it has sparked; Ropes & Gray poached restructuring and benefits partners from Kirkland to help handle a surge in covid-related work; Baker McKenzie announced new leaders for key corporate practices, and hired a white collar partner; Boies Schiller lost another prominent partner; Armstrong Teasdale got a multimillion dollar contract advising the National Institutes for Health on vaccines, other biotech work.

  • Leading off, a former Ropes & Gray chief operating officer and analyst at Boston Consulting Group ...

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