A&O Shearman to cull 10% of partners

Global law firm A&O Shearman is set to embark on post-merger strategic changes, which will – among other things...

11 September 2024

By Jerome Doraisamy

Potential impacts of AI in legal recruitment and redundancies

HR professionals in the legal industry and beyond have been warned against implementing AI into recruitment or...

11 December 2023

By Lauren Croft

BigLaw redundancies now extending to fee earners

Following reports just over a month ago about cuts to the back offices of some of the nation’s largest legal...

11 August 2023

By Jerome Doraisamy

PTSD, emojis and a fake lawyer: What’s hot in law this week (10–14 July)

From a former pilot pretending to be a lawyer to the “thumbs-up” emoji being sufficient for a binding contract, the...

15 July 2023

By Jerome Doraisamy

Lawyers safe from redundancies ‘for now’, following mammoth EOFY promotions

In the lead up to the end of the 2023 financial year, more than a thousand lawyers were promoted in firms across the...

12 July 2023

By Lauren Croft

A jam-packed week of legal news pre-EOFY: What’s hot in law this week (19-23 June)

This past week has seen a fascinating insight into high-profile defamation trials and the strategies to tackle alleged...

24 June 2023

By Jerome Doraisamy

Redundancies or prosperity? The future of legal jobs with AI

KPMG’s chief digital officer and KPMG Law’s head of legal technology weigh in on whether the continued rise of...

05 May 2023

By Jess Feyder

Legal likely to be among the last to see redundancies in tech

Amid a handful of large-scale redundancies in some of the world’s largest tech companies, in-house recruiters reflect...

14 March 2023

By Jerome Doraisamy

Who’s at risk of redundancy?

After a period of significant growth and industry-wide recruitment, the recession now looms, and profitability is...

28 November 2022

By Jess Feyder