For those of you who like a sobriquet we thought we should highlight the following blog post detailing all the legal jobs that went in the US on Monday
The Truth Justice & Peace blog writes:
The Monday Massacre
It used to be that day’s end on Friday was the preferred time for employee terminations, since it was the end of the day/week and less people were around to gossip about the departure. Several years ago, there was a reconsideration of that philosophy, because of work-related incidents by disgruntled employees. The week-end was felt to be an isolating time for an impacted employee, without any resources to help deal with the job loss.
But until now, Monday has not been a big hit day.
In my continuing saga of law firm layoff news, yesterday definitely qualified as the Monday Massacre. K&L Gates began the day with a layoff of 36 attorneys and 79 staff, as reported by Above the Law. Although significant, it wasn’t as bad as had been expected, K&L Gates Reduces by 36 Associates
Full post at http://judiphilly.blogspot.com/2009/03/monday-massacre.html
So we’ve had Black Thursday & The Monday Massacre. We only need to fill in Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday now
