Law.com - DLA Faces Job Cuts as Effects of Crunch Continue to Take Hold
While this might not be the best example of an increasingly more common phenomenon, it is definitely an example that illustrates the growing trend of many firms to respond quickly and decisively to changing market conditions. Cadwalader would be another example with layoffs of about 130 or so professional staff in to tranches, about 35 and then another 95. It is true that law firms are also businesses, but there was a time when they put more emphasis on the professional side of things. Now, some are starting to look like automobile companies, laying off production workers the first sign that a car model is in trouble. If this is the future of law firms, then it will only be a matter of time before we see union type activity, particularly at the support staff and associate levels.
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