Job losses at Hill Dickinson
LAW firm Hill Dickinson is cutting 83 jobs, or 6% of its workforce, following a strategic review.
The firm, which has a South Yorkshire office, said the changes, which also involve the sale of its Chester office to Midlands firm Knights, are in response to “prevailing market conditions”.
It is losing 14 partners, or 8% of the 175 total, and 69 employees, but Hill Dickinson said 44 employees were leaving voluntarily.
Hill Dickinson employs 1,350 staff at its headquarters in Liverpool and six other offices including Sheffield, Manchester and London. It did not give a regional breakdown of the redundancies.
Senior partner David Wareing said: “This has been a sensitive time for all involved and we have done our utmost to conduct a professional and thorough consultation process with our staff throughout.
“We have a strong and sustainable business and indeed many of our teams recorded revenue growth in the last financial year. Inevitably however we have been affected like all our competitors by the difficult trading conditions which presently exist in our regional centres and accordingly it has been necessary for us to proactively manage the business to ensure the stability of the firm as a whole and to enable us to continue to further invest in the business in the future.
“As a firm we have a long history of working in partnership with our clients and playing a key role in the communities in which we operate across our regional centres in the North of England, in London and overseas. This will continue with further investment and expansion planned both in the UK and internationally in line with current and anticipated areas of growth. Hill Dickinson is – and will continue to be – a major force in the provision of legal services both in the UK and internationally and we are committed to our plans for the further development of the business.”
