Wake Up Call: Staff Cuts, ‘Stealth’ Layoffs Reported at Two Big Firms

In today’s column, U.K. firm Osborne Clarke brought back more than 80 furloughed employees; California law school deans and students want the state’s recently lowered bar exam passing score to be applied retroactively to February; judges in northern California and West Virginia paused trials because of increasing numbers of Covid-19 cases; distributed firm FisherBroyles hired former Troutman Sanders corporate and venture capital attorney Justin S. Nahama as a partner in Los Angeles.

• Leading off, New York firm Sullivan & Cromwell laid off as many as 50 staff members across several departments in the last three months, offering severance packages of ...