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Exclusive: up to 45 redundancies at Pinsents

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Matthew @ RoF

25 June 2012 10:47

Pinsent Masons has confirmed that a number of staff are facing redundancy.

A spokesman said that 40 were at risk, although insiders put the number at 45. It's off the back of the recent merger with McGrigors - the firm said that "as with any merger, there are a number of duplicate roles within our support teams and as such we have identified a small number of potential redundancies in those areas".

The cuts will hit the firm's business support departments, including BD, HR, IT and Facilities. Apparently staff have been given just five days to apply for contested roles, roles marked as vacant or apply for voluntary redundancy.

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anonymous user 26/06/2012 11:44 Rate it 0 Report as offensive This is usually a sad consequence of firm mergers, and given the tough job market out there, this is a lousy time to lose your job. I expect to see more of this in due course, and certainly wouldn't rule out the possibility of redundancies among fee-earners, given what other nono-merging firms have been up to. Interesting to see what happens with the future proposed FFW/LG merger. Sympathies to all those affected - hope they can find alternative meaningful employment soon.
anonymous user 26/06/2012 20:41 Rate it 1 Report as offensive At least this time they're doing it out in the open. In late 2008, early 2009 100+ lawyers disappeared from their desks. Officially there were only 19 redundancies from the round launched in July 2009.

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This is usually a sad consequence of firm mergers, and given the tough job market out there, this is a lousy time to lose your job. I expect to see more of this in due course, and certainly wouldn't rule out the possibility of redundancies among fee-earners, given what other nono-merging firms have been up to. Interesting to see what happens with the future proposed FFW/LG merger.

Sympathies to all those affected - hope they can find alternative meaningful employment soon.

anonymous user
26/06/2012 20:41

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At least this time they're doing it out in the open. In late 2008, early 2009 100+ lawyers disappeared from their desks. Officially there were only 19 redundancies from the round launched in July 2009.