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A&O confirms up to 155 London layoffs ahead of Belfast launch

@Welcome to The Free Market | 6-May-2011 9:52 am 90% of the work A&O lawyers they do is commoditized work – Finance / Corporate etc is just cut and paste and precedent based so the logical step would be, looking down the line in 5 or 6 years, to cut virtually all their associates and have paralegals do the work (in Ireland no doubt) – as most of the work done in finance / corporate a 14 year old could do. UK technical legal work would be done done in London (i.e. real “advice” work) and then they would rent the rest of their London office space out. A&O is a commoditized legal factory if you like – at some point they will structure themselves to reflect that – that is if they really want to give the client a good deal. Why clients pay associates £300 an hour for work that someone barely out of puberty could do is beyond me.

6-May-2011

10:46 am