Redundancy Watch update: Nabarro, Mayer Brown, Speechlys, TLT, Blake Lapthorn, DLA. What to Do?
With a number of firms having reached the end of their consultations, the professional scrapheap is piling up pretty high. The casualties included 22 people (13 lawyers) at Nabarro in its London and Sheffield offices, 9 lawyers at Mayer Brown, 8 lawyers at Speechly Bircham, 15 members of staff at TLT Solicitors and 20 people at Blake Lapthorn . Meanwhile, DLA staff are reportedly very peed off about the paltry offer of statutory mimimum made by the firm – …
With a number of firms having reached the end of their consultations, the professional scrapheap is piling up pretty high. The casualties included 22 people (13 lawyers) at Nabarro in its London and Sheffield offices, 9 lawyers at Mayer Brown, 8 lawyers at Speechly Bircham, 15 members of staff at TLT Solicitors and 20 people at Blake Lapthorn . Meanwhile, DLA staff are reportedly very peed off about the paltry offer of statutory mimimum made by the firm – rather embarrasingly for DLA minutes from a meeting held last month with employee representatives have been leaked …
If you have been tossed aside in this fallout (or think you might just want to be prepared for that eventuality), what to do?
Here is an plea for help from one distressed, redundant lawyer to the Above the Law team:
"ATL -
What, the hell, am I supposed to do [as a recently laid off associate] when I am NOT looking for a job? Bottom line, getting rejected only takes up so much of my day. What kinds of things should I be doing with the rest of it. You know, when is it okay for me to start drinking (noon, two, sundown)? And what kind of cheap alcohol should I be looking at now that I can’t afford top-shelf? Any good T.V. shows I should be catching up on (I’m done with Law & Order. D-U-N!) How often should I expect my still employed friends to come out and drink with me (I know 7 days a week isn’t the right answer … what about six?)
Welcome to the Jungle"
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March 12, 2009
think i might enjoy some time off, since they booted half this department i seem to be working harder than ever before
March 12, 2009
you should farm some out to redundant layabouts cash in hand
March 12, 2009
disgrace
March 12, 2009
yea they have show themselves to be a bunch of cheapscape, greedy bstards
March 12, 2009
DLA associates should get over themselves, smaller firms have been getting rid of people on those terms all over the place.
March 12, 2009
I cannot believe that a firm of that size and supposed reputation would let their staff go with minimum statutory pay. It is a disgrace and no doubt it will prove to be simply so that the partners can maintain their PEP.
March 12, 2009
its partners can surely afford to offer their staff more than the minimum severance pay under UK employment law? Companies on the brink of bankruptcy or with little means to pay creditors – that’s where statutory redundancy pay is meant to act as an absolute floor not at profitable multinational organisations such as DLA. Disgraceful.
March 12, 2009
escape
March 19, 2009
Nabarro is barely any better than DLA. Statutory minimum plus one month’s salary, whatever the length of service.