This is the first of a multipart series looking at the lawyers and staff who were laid off at Cooley this year and where they may go from here. Read part two and part three.

When it laid off 150 employees last week, Cooley single-handedly introduced 78 attorneys and 72 paralegals and business staff into the national legal market at a time when Big Law firms can’t hope to sustain the level of hiring that took place in 2021.