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Addleshaws cuts fee-earners as profits rise 30 per cent

Paul Devitt: " . . . having so far avoided a fee earner redundancy programme . . ." Yet fee earner numbers have dropped from 490 to 437 over the last 5 years? And with the market as it's been over that time they've all voluntarily resigned and moved on to pastures new? I don't think so. There's another name for that programme which hasn't just affected fee earners. At least this time around they're doing the slightly more decent thing by calling it a redundancy process. Now when are they going to deal with the issue of partners clawing back every bit of work to their own desks rather than going out hunting for new work, leaving those of fee earners empty and at risk of redundancy? Or has fee earner development fallen by the wayside?!

22-Jun-2012

9:14 am