DWF has placed 21 of its staff into a redundancy consultation.

The job losses are expected across the firm's finance teams in its Glasgow, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester offices.

The affected employees are also understood to be mostly legacy Cobbetts staff, who have suffered various indignities since DWF snapped up the troubled firm early last year, including denial of loo-paper, being made redundant, and getting paid less than their trainees.

An ex-Cobbetts staffer wonders when they swap places

Andrew Leaitherland, Managing Partner & CEO of DWF told RollOnFriday, “It is with real regret for the individuals concerned that we have just announced a proposed restructure of our finance team".

He said the move was a result of the the firm "switching off old accountancy packages used by legacy firms so that we’re using a single system across all of our operations and also to centralise our finance operations to deliver a more efficient and effective client service.  We will of course do everything we can to minimise the number of people affected and to support them should they need to find another role”.

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