Facing the music
How did Freeth Cartwright manage to avoid making redundancies until now, while the rest of UK's real estate teams have been making cuts for more than a year?
Crunch time at DLA
It had always seemed likely that DLA Piper, the world’s largest law firm by number of lawyers, would have to make some redundancies as the recession loomed.
Knowing your outplace
As redundancy packages go, that offered by Nabarro to the 22 staff currently in consultation is on the good side of average.
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Bank lawyers face unhappy New Year
Irwin Mitchell makes 16 redundant
Muckle lays off 14 after consultation
Simmons’ Rotterdam office on the edge
Chill wind blows as two-thirds of law firm partners admit job security fears
05-Jan-2009Lawyers are bracing themselves for the worst as economic conditions deteriorate, with only a third of partners feeling secure in their jobs.
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Redeployments, job shares, secondments spare 26 jobs
15-Dec-2008Blake Lapthorn, Clarke Willmott and Cobbetts have reduced the number of staff they are making redundant by a total of 26 through a combination of redeployments and client secondments.
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| Addleshaw Goddard | 16 |
| ASB Law | 38 |
| Beachcroft | 6 |
| Bevan Brittan | 31 |
| Bircham Dyson Bell* | 4 |
| Blake Lapthorn* | 40 |
| Brabners Chaffe Street | 8 |
| Challinors | 38 |
| Clarke Willmott* | 40 |
| Clifford Chance | 80 |
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*in consultation
Clifford Chance to make 80 London lawyers redundant
"4Let's hope the redundancy pay-off makes this slightly more palatable for those to be affected. Now watch the domino effect of this across the other Magic Circle firms... Ominous!"
Wedlake Bell lays off 17
"Only six lawyers? That doesn't sound like too much. Does anyone know which practice areas they come from?"
