Ropes & Gray Cuts Staff

Boston-based Ropes & Gray cut 106 staff positions, or 10 percent of its non-lawyer staff, on Thursday, announcing the news in a firmwide memo sent by Chairman Brad Malt, who stated that the firm's clients and marketplace "have been seriously affected by the continuing global economic downturn." Intellectual property firm Fish & Richardson also conducted a non-lawyer staff layoff on Thursday, letting go 30 employees across eight U.S. offices.