Hill Dickinson is placing up to 39 staff at risk of redundancy.
All the roles are in the counter fraud insurance teams of the firm's Liverpool, Manchester and London offices, with both support staff and fee-earners affected.
A spokeswoman for the firm said the consultation, which started on 14 May, has seen "approximately 30" people placed at risk. An inside source told RollOnFriday that the exact figure is 39. Staff may feel they're experiencing a bad case of deja vu. Last summer 40 of their former colleagues in the counter fraud team, 15 secretaries and 25 fee-earners, were placed in a redundancy consultation, and all lost their jobs. The source says staff morale "is at an all time low".
Hill Dicks says the move comes "following a period of considerable market change" and as "part of an operational restructure". Which is at least better than last year, when the firm said that, rather improbably, it had to make redundancies "following a 15% increase in instructions".
HD staff are not the only ones being hit. The legal services market may be seeing green shoots of recovery, but pile 'em high, sell 'em cheap commoditised sectors seem to be suffering. Several lawyers in the medical negligence team at Capsticks are set to lose their jobs, as exclusively revealed this week by RollOnFriday, and 80 staff are in the firing line at Plexus after it decided to outsource its high volume, low value work to South Africa.
A spokeswoman for Hill Dickinson said, "We appreciate this is difficult time for our colleagues and are providing support and assistance to those affected”.
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All the roles are in the counter fraud insurance teams of the firm's Liverpool, Manchester and London offices, with both support staff and fee-earners affected.
A spokeswoman for the firm said the consultation, which started on 14 May, has seen "approximately 30" people placed at risk. An inside source told RollOnFriday that the exact figure is 39. Staff may feel they're experiencing a bad case of deja vu. Last summer 40 of their former colleagues in the counter fraud team, 15 secretaries and 25 fee-earners, were placed in a redundancy consultation, and all lost their jobs. The source says staff morale "is at an all time low".
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Hill Dicks says the move comes "following a period of considerable market change" and as "part of an operational restructure". Which is at least better than last year, when the firm said that, rather improbably, it had to make redundancies "following a 15% increase in instructions".
HD staff are not the only ones being hit. The legal services market may be seeing green shoots of recovery, but pile 'em high, sell 'em cheap commoditised sectors seem to be suffering. Several lawyers in the medical negligence team at Capsticks are set to lose their jobs, as exclusively revealed this week by RollOnFriday, and 80 staff are in the firing line at Plexus after it decided to outsource its high volume, low value work to South Africa.
A spokeswoman for Hill Dickinson said, "We appreciate this is difficult time for our colleagues and are providing support and assistance to those affected”.
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They have decent staff, work from loads of different / diverse sources and some presence in the industry.
How is it going wrong for them?
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They have decent staff, work from loads of different / diverse sources and some presence in the industry.
How is it going wrong for them?
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Be prepared if you are on the hit list that your work colleagues may start ignoring you and your managers will leave you out of things. Don't embarrass yourself by working late, what would be the point. Do your job, go home and try to stay in control.
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I've worked in 4 Counter Fraud depts but having been made redundant twice, I'm glad I at least had my LLB(Hons), LPC and some advocacy experience to fall back on. In the days of the RTA Portal, a lot of these Defendant/Fraud fee earners will find it tough finding the same salary on the Claimant side, if they manage to find a job in PI at all.
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I'm jumping ship, I don't know about the rest of you!