The good reporters at msnbc.com may have found the craziest legal layoff story yet: the tale of Frank Scudere, a former staff attorney at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom that the firm planned to lay off on 16 January – the day after Scudere survived the now-famous Hudson River crash landing of US Airways flight 1549.
The firm has laid off nearly all of its 50 staff attorneys, but they held off letting Scudere go because of the plane crash. But on 26 March, the Skadden HR staff came calling, and it was time for Scudere to go. They cut off his health insurance immediately and gave him three hours to leave the building.
