This is the first we’ve heard of Australian law firms laying off staff…
We imagine a closer examination of the Australian print press will reveal more – Friday tends to be the day that legal sections are published.
Jim Belshaw’s Managing The Professional Services Firm blog reveals the following..
Friday, November 28, 2008
Australian law firms retrench
The economic downturn in Australia is clearly biting the legal sector.
A story in today’s (28 November) Australian Financial Review – I cannot give you the link because it is behind the pay wall – records that Corrs Chambers Westgarth has retrenched fourteen lawyers to try to fit its business to the new economic landscape. This brings the total number of retrenchments including support staff to something approaching fifty staff.
Last week DLA Phillips Fox confirmed that it had retrenched twenty staff including twelve lawwers at its Sydney and Auckland offices
http://professionalservicesmanagement.blogspot.com/2008/11/australian-law-firms-retrench.html
So.. it’ll be interesting to see what’s happening at Mallesons, Freehills, Clayton Utz, Blake Dawson Waldron, Allens and others.
