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Mayer Brown fires 28 attorneys, 47 staff

Posted April 08, 2010 11:00 pm

Mayer Brown LLP, a Chicago-based law firm, fired 28 attorneys and 47 staff, Chairman Herbert Krueger Jr. said in an e-mail to the firm yesterday.

"Prudent management requires that we align firm-wide personnel levels with current and anticipated demand for legal services," Krueger said in the e-mail. "Despite this action, we see encouraging signs for 2010."

Mayer Brown has about 1,700 lawyers, according to the firm.

Battered by the recession and a slowdown in corporate legal work, law firms fired thousands of associates in 2008 and 2009. Demand for law firm services fell 4.1 percent last year, according to a March report by Citi Private Bank's Law Firm Group, a unit of Citigroup Inc.

The legal sector lost 500 jobs in March, according to the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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