The Firm Spy can confirm today that a gob-smacking 115 staff of been collectively laid off from DLA Phillips Fox, Deacons & Corrs Chambers Westgarth in the last month.

Numbers lost. Fearful firms.

As reported in today’s Financial Review, over forty lawyers and over seventy support staff have lost their jobs across the three firms and are taking additional measures ‘encouraging lawyers to take secondments with clients or extended leave on reduced pay‘.

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