The figure represents nearly a fifth of the firm’s business support staff in the UK, with IT, finance, HR, marketing, business development and secretary staff likely to be badly impacted by the cull.

Review and pilot scheme

The changes come in the wake of a two-year review of the firm's operations, run by COO Andrew Darwin, and a pilot of a global shared services centre in Warsaw.

All UK offices affected

All of DLA's UK offices will be affected, with around 80 jobs set to be cut from the Sheffield and Leeds offices and around 55 in London. The firm also has offices in Birmingham, Liverpool, Edinburgh and Manchester.

Consultation with staff

A consultation with staff will begin on 31 May 2016 and will be completed by the end of July, with employees told that jobs will not be axed until October at the earliest.

250 jobs axed in last round

The move comes three years after DLA's last UK redundancy round, when around 250 staff were laid-off and the firm closed its Glasgow office.

Source: Legal Business