Denton Wilde Sapte has launched its second redundancy round this year, with 29 support and secretarial positions at risk.

The top 50 firm announced the redundancy consultation yesterday with the bulk of the cuts expected to affect the London office, with the rest in Milton Keynes.

Twenty secretaries and nine support staff are included in the consultation.

In London, support staff working in departments including accounts, facilities, litigation support and marketing are at risk of redundancy, as are secretaries in departments including real estate, energy, infrastructure, disputes and employment and pensions.

The Milton Keynes cuts are expected to affect accounts and IT support staff as well as secretarial staff in the construction team. No fee earners will be affected.

A previous redundancy consultation resulted in 76 staff leaving the firm – including 37 fee earners.

Chief executive Howard Morris told Legal Week: “This is not something that we wanted to do, but we can now see the way the year is shaping up and even though we shall be on budget for the year, or above, we will have sufficient capacity to meet any increase in activity levels.

Source :Legal Week

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