CMS reviews real estate jobs
CMS reviews real estate jobs" />CMS Cameron McKenna is reviewing corporate jobs and drawing up plans to send lawyers in recession-hit practice groups to its offices in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).
Five corporate lawyers have already been sent east and seven associates in the London real estate group are under review.
Managing partner Duncan Weston said: “We have got a general policy, which we adopted when I took over, of relocating our lawyers around the practice.
“We are looking at areas that are not busy and shifting our resources.”
The seven real estate lawyers could still be made redundant if they decide not to take up the Eastern European posts.
Real estate head Edward Benzecry said: “I am confident that undertaking this process will stand us in good stead over the coming months which are likely to see continuing challenges for the UK real estate market.”
Six out of eight paralegals in the Cameron’s Bristol plot sales practice have also been made redundant and were offered in-house jobs at builder Taylor Wimpey.
They had been deployed in Bristol to work with the company, a major client, before the property slump saw conveyancing work dry up. The remaining two paralegals have retained their jobs at Camerons.
Readers' comments (5)
The man from the Gulag | 2-Oct-2008 6:13 pm
Sent to Siberia
Being offered the choice of redundancy or a job in Belgrade is hardly a choice. How many lawyers, most of whom no doubt have families, want to relocate to some God-forsaken dump in "a far away country of which we know little"?
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Anonymous | 3-Oct-2008 10:01 am
Re Sent to Siberia
But how many people who have been offered that choice would rather be take a job in Eastern Europe than have a job at all? If you work in departments that are vunerable in a recession you must realise that in economic down turns, you'll be faced with difficult decisions.
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Anonymous | 3-Oct-2008 1:30 pm
Sent to Eastern Europe
If you do not want to move to Eastern Europe, then its probably best not to work in a firm that has that region as its major geographical focus...
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Anonymous | 3-Oct-2008 2:43 pm
Sent to Siberia
I wouldn't want anyone as short-sighted and inflexible as "the man from the Gulag" working for me. Knowing little about a country is surely a very good reason for going there. Or is he so narrow-minded that he doesn't want to experience other cultures and ways of life?
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Slobodan | 13-Oct-2008 4:09 pm
Belgrade
Belgrade is a fabulous city - not pretty, but the nightlife beats any in Europe. If anyone offers you a post there, it is a 'no brainer' - GO!
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