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DLA Piper puts 251 in consultation across UK as firm mulls Glasgow closure

DLA is looking increasingly like a firm that wants as many flags as it can possibly plant to be planted in emerging markets around the world. Nothing wrong in that. However there are some anomolies like the two offices in both Yorkshire and "Lancashire", along with two in Baltimore and three in greater San Diego (!!!!). Doubtless those offices serve specific purposes, but in the longer term the firm clearly has global ambitions andthe firm probably sees a future with multiple offices in China rather than having four along the M62 corridor (Sheffield being just 30 or so miles south of the M62!). Whilst regional offices have a future for now, as another poster suggests, there is as slow yet steady march of Partners who are leaving the Northern offices for firms who might better appreciate their talents,as is witnessed by the recent resignation of a team of for Real Estate partners in Manchester.

15-Nov-2012

9:52 am