{"id":772,"date":"2009-01-09T06:09:34","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T06:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=772"},"modified":"2009-01-09T06:13:55","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T06:13:55","slug":"clifford-chance-to-axe-80-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=772","title":{"rendered":"Clifford Chance to axe 80 lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img alignleft size-full wp-image-773\" style=\"width:103px;\">\r\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/clifford_chance.jpg\" alt=\"clifford_chance\" width=\"103\" height=\"59\" \/>\r\n\t<div>clifford_chance<\/div>\r\n<\/div>The Financial Times 8th January 2009 reported that Clifford Chance, the world\u2019s largest law firm, is to cut almost a 1 in 10 of its staff of lawyers in London.  This is the most dramatic indication that the international financial crunch has finally halted the long boom in the legal industry.<\/p>\n<p>The firm proposes cutting between 70 and 80 of its 880 London \u201cassociates\u201d \u2013 qualified lawyers below the partner level. The action will not affect the firm\u2019s 227 partners \u2013 who own and manage the business \u2013 or its 258 trainees.<\/p>\n<p>News report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelawyer.com\/cgi-bin\/item.cgi?id=136200&amp;d=415&amp;h=417&amp;f=416\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>clifford_chance The Financial Times 8th January 2009 reported that Clifford Chance, the world\u2019s largest law firm, is to cut almost a 1 in 10 of its staff of lawyers in London. This is the most dramatic indication that the international financial crunch has finally halted the long boom in the legal industry. The firm proposes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":778,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions\/778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}