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31 July 2013
Issue: 7571 / Categories: Legal News
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Commercial firm to lose 83 employees

International commercial law firm Hill Dickinson is to make 83 job losses, including 14 at partner level and 69 employees. However, 44 employees have accepted voluntary redundancy. The firm employs more than 1,350 people including 175 partners. Senior partner, David Wareing says: “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.

Issue: 7571 / Categories: Legal News
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