Insiders have told RollOnFriday that Lyons Davidson is making around 80 staff redundant.
RollOnFriday's sources say that the entire Claimant Division in Solihull is for the chop, with further cuts likely in London. However the firm has refused to comment on the job losses. But it booted out a raft of staff back in February, when a number of employees in Bristol and the entire Cardiff Employment Department were shown the door. If one round of redundancies is unfortunate, two inside nine months look remarkably like carelessness.
The job losses are despite the firm recently announcing a joint venture with the AA, under which LD will handle the personal injury work for AA customers from next month. Which is all jolly good of course, but may not end up being as lucrative as Lyons Davidson might have hoped. The Co-operative Legal Service has recently abandoned plans to train up large numbers of lawyers to do similar work in favour of employing rafts of cheap paralegals.
The firm refused to comment.
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RollOnFriday's sources say that the entire Claimant Division in Solihull is for the chop, with further cuts likely in London. However the firm has refused to comment on the job losses. But it booted out a raft of staff back in February, when a number of employees in Bristol and the entire Cardiff Employment Department were shown the door. If one round of redundancies is unfortunate, two inside nine months look remarkably like carelessness.
The job losses are despite the firm recently announcing a joint venture with the AA, under which LD will handle the personal injury work for AA customers from next month. Which is all jolly good of course, but may not end up being as lucrative as Lyons Davidson might have hoped. The Co-operative Legal Service has recently abandoned plans to train up large numbers of lawyers to do similar work in favour of employing rafts of cheap paralegals.
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The firm refused to comment.
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It is indeed a shame for the staff who are being made redundant there, many of whom have been there for many years.
LD are quite happy to be in the headlines when their new business is announced, but keen to keep the redundancy details behind closed doors.
Good luck to all of those poor people that have been affected - Merry Christmas indeed!
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