Credit: Andy Shaw/Bloomberg NewsLinklaters Eyeing Low-Cost Centre Expansion, Partner Conference Told
The magic circle firm has created a new director of legal ops role as part of a review of its current offering.
April 12, 2019 at 04:39 AM
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Linklaters is discussing how the firm can cut costs by expanding the use of its low-cost centres in Colchester and Warsaw, as it finishes a review of its business teams.
Linklaters has low-cost bases in Colchester and Warsaw, the growth of which was discussed at the firm's annual partner conference in Cannes last month, according to one partner.
The partner said: "We're about the only firm that don't have a big centre in Manchester or Belfast, so there's some degree of playing catchup."
Linklaters declined to comment specifically about expanding the two operations but in a statement said it has completed a review of its global business teams, and is considering "a number of options", including how to make "optimal use of our shared services capabilities".
The firm also said it has created a new director of legal operations role as part of the review. The person who takes the position will be responsible for all legal operations including paralegal support, innovation and efficiency, and legal project management.
No appointment has been made yet and the firm declined to comment on when it expects the new director to start or where they will be based.
Linklaters' Colchester office is its main paralegal hub and also houses business support functions including payroll, marketing services and HR.
The firm's Warsaw hub has been used by the firm as a low-cost centre since 2014 for roles such as finance, data management and risk assistance. It moved offices in 2016 after 10 finance support jobs shifted there from London and Colchester.
The firm has also expanded another of its low-cost centres in Lecce, Italy, which offers due diligence support for the firm's Milan office.
That base launched in 2017 with an initial team of five lawyers, and now has 13 in total – a mix of associates and trainees.
One Italy partner at the firm said the Lecce office differs to the Colchester and Warsaw offices by focusing almost exclusively on due diligence. The partner said this focus allows for a "quicker, more efficient and better-quality product", and that the office has so far "exceeded our expectations".
Last February, Linklaters hired Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's global head of legal innovation, Maziar Jamnejad, as an innovation manager based in the Lecce office, to take a lead role in the project.
In other news from the firm's partner conference, managing partner Gideon Moore had his term extended until April 2022, after running unopposed for the partners' vote.
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