Be merry the time to lose your job season is almost upon us….
Above the Law start us off on our joyful holiday celebrations with the news that….
As more law firms begin to open international back-office business hubs, it’s come to be expected that layoffs would soon follow. Earlier this fall, for example, DLA Piper announced that it would be conducting one of the largest mass layoffs since the Great Lathaming of 2009, slashing about 180 business support roles in the United Kingdom in order to shift jobs to its new back-office hub in Poland.
Yet another Biglaw firm — the biggest one of them all, actually — opened a business center in Warsaw this week, and just like DLA Piper before it, the firm expects to cut business support roles in the U.K. to transition job functions to its Poland outpost, which has about 70 staff members working there in business development, marketing, human resources, and IT functions. Which firm could it be?
It’s Dentons, the 7,500-lawyer Biglaw behemoth, and the firm is so large that the number of layoffs accounts for but a fractional percentage of its overall footprint on this earth in terms of support roles. Here’s more information from Legal Week:
Here’s the full report and expect a lot more of this as we run up to Christmas… maybe they can all get jobs in those new coal mines and car factories. Of course, there’ll be lots of jobs for lawyers when the Trump family revives the South Sea Company too
