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Law Practice

Sep. 27, 2013

Wilson Sonsini latest firm to ax legal support staff

Firm let go 35 secretaries, following similar moves by Weil Gotshal and others.


By Kylie Reynolds


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC on Wednesday became the latest law firm to lay off secretarial staff, announcing in a firmwide memo that the firm will cut 35 positions, primarily in its Palo Alto office.


Sent around 10 a.m. by firm managing partners Douglas J. Clark and Jack Sheridan, the memo cites technological and operational efficiencies that have had a "profound change in work habi...

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