Firms risk future by firing staff

Mr Barry, vice president of research and development at Aderant, the largest legal software provider in the world, was speaking to Lawyers Weekly about the trend to lay off employees. He said: ‘The first thing firms do is they fire staff because they want to keep profit per partner. As soon as they fire staff they have to look at ways to automate stuff, look at workflow solutions, with CFOs and people in finance having to look at data they have never had to look at before.’ Source: Lawyers Weekly