After the U.K.'s biggest listed law firm announced it is to shut offices and cut staff, those who know it well explain what went wrong, and what is required to fix it.
July 01, 2020 at 07:02 AM
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Managing Editor
When DWF announced this week it was aborting its expansive missions in Asia and Europe, jettisoning 60 staff members along the way, it marked a sharp reversal of the firm’s rapid growth of recent years. Now former partners say more cuts are needed.
Only 15 months before the firm had become the U.K.’s first ever law firm to list on the London Stock Exchange’s premier market. Words like ‘growth’, ‘innovation’ and ‘expansion’ were bandied around with apparent impunity.
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