DLA Piper to cut up to 200 support jobs
Global firm looks to slash up to 18% of its support staff in the UK following a review of its business support functions
May 11, 2016 at 07:40 AM
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DLA Piper is to cut up to 200 business support jobs in the UK, following a review of its business services functions.
The cuts are set to amount to up to 18% of its 1,100 UK support staff.
DLA aims to launch a redundancy consultation on 31 May on jobs in its IT, marketing, finance, HR and secretarial teams.
The firm plans to move a raft of jobs to its business services centre in Warsaw, which it launched in November 2015, and it is also expecting to automate certain administrative tasks.
Andrew Darwin, chief operating office at DLA Piper, said: "The firm has grown rapidly over the past decade and many of our systems and processes reflect the history of the firm rather than its future. It is a key part of our strategy to modernise our business service functions in order to operate more effectively on a global basis and improve the quality, consistency and efficiency of the way we deliver our services to our clients.
"Following a comprehensive review of the firm's operations and the successful pilot of a global shared services centre in Warsaw, we have begun a period of consultation in the UK that will consider the possible reduction in size of our IT, finance, HR, marketing and BD, and secretarial teams.
"Until the consultation is completed, we will not be making any final decisions and we will be actively supporting our people during this process."
In a previous review, launched in 2012, the firm announced that it would review up to 251 lawyers and backroom staff.
That long-running review resulted in the closure of the firm's Glasgow office, with the loss of 45 staff.
In 2014, the firm confirmed that 69 of the 116 support jobs that were put at risk of redundancy as part of the firm-wide review had been axed.
In addition to the 69 redundancies, five staff were transferred to the Leeds base to join 23 existing employees, 14 were transferred to work in satellite offices and a further five resigned.
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