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DLA Piper moots office closures as practice review kicks off

As a former and at the time very junior person at DLA it seems to me that things have changed at the Firm. I recall when the London Office opened it was seen as an engine to drive the Firm as a whole forwards (US Mergers being a distant dream at the time) which would then allow the regional offices access to work which they wouldn't normally have. It now seems that because they themselves are possibly struggling for work, there isn't very much outflow from the London Office so consequently that workstream for the regional offices is maybe drying up. Rather than the regions perhaps Big Tony should look closer to home and look at what London does and whether they are keeping hold of unprofitable work (in order to fill time) and which is having 2 effects - profitability generally will be lower, and secondly the regional offices will struggle with what i'm sure are ambitious targets and with one important workstream diminished. Still i suppose it's easier and less intellectually demanding to just close offices and save a few quid - as people usually say in these posts - you can only repeat that trick once.

6-Jun-2012

9:02 am