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2 BigLaw firms offer voluntary separation packages to staff members as part of reorganization
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Staff members at Reed Smith and Fox Rothschild have been offered voluntary separation packages that appear to be part of a BigLaw trend to reduce and reorganize support personnel.
“After 15 months of working remotely,” Law.com reports, “law firms are coming to terms with how overstaffed their support teams are, leading to an industrywide effort to reduce the quantity of personnel handling support functions and organize them into teams handling firmwide administrative duties.”
Mark Santiago, a partner at law firm consulting company SB2 Consultants, told Law.com that the BigLaw trend is to allocate more specialized work to legal secretaries and other support needs to practice assistants.
Reed Smith expects all US offices to be fully reopened in September
07 May 2021
Firm outlines phased return that will be supported by permanent flexible working arrangements
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where Reed Smith has its headquarters Shutterstock Reed Smith will fully reopen all of its US offices in September as it announces plans for a phased return to work and new flexible work arrangements. The firm said all 17 US offices will be reopened by September 7th, subject to any local Covid-19 restrictions. In setting out its plans, it becomes one of the first major US practices to provide a detailed return-to-work blueprint, although Sullivan & Cromwell chair Joseph Shenker this week told Law.com that staff would be “strongly encouraged” to return to the office from 6 July.