Almost 800 associates and legal staff were laid off across the US on Thursday (12 February) after eight firms carried out mass job cuts, citing an unprecedented downturn in demand.
DLA Piper cut 80 associates, equating to 5% of its US-based lawyers. Aside from 28 associates in New York and Chicago, the reductions are primarily on the West Coast, chairman Francis Burch told Legal Week sister title The National Law Journal. A DLA Piper spokesman declined to say how many lawyers were laid off in California.
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