In the latest round of law firm redundancies, and despite the improving economic conditions, Keoghs has announced that 41 jobs are at risk.
All the redundancies will be in the firm's fraud division. Most are in the Coventry office and both fee earners (including four partners) and support staff are to be hit. Keoghs has put 41 people at risk of redundancy.
The firm blamed the redundancies on last year's reforms for personal injury claims. A spokesman said “The post-reforms market environment has yet to stabilise, but it is clear that insurers’ ongoing counter-fraud requirements are going to be significantly different to what they were 12 to 18 months ago". However sources at the firm lay the blame squarely on poor management. Which will now be bracing itself for open anarchy, if the dirty protests carried out at the firm previously are anything to go by.
Only recently Keoghs was making a big song and dance about opening an office in Manchester and poaching a load of Clyde & Co lawyers to run it. Some of those lawyers are now being shown the door. One slightly bitter insider, who is also at risk of redundancy, said that "those of us in Horwich, who were paid half what was paid to those in Manchester despite the Manchester lot scrounging around taking our work, are at least able to laugh at that".
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All the redundancies will be in the firm's fraud division. Most are in the Coventry office and both fee earners (including four partners) and support staff are to be hit. Keoghs has put 41 people at risk of redundancy.
The firm blamed the redundancies on last year's reforms for personal injury claims. A spokesman said “The post-reforms market environment has yet to stabilise, but it is clear that insurers’ ongoing counter-fraud requirements are going to be significantly different to what they were 12 to 18 months ago". However sources at the firm lay the blame squarely on poor management. Which will now be bracing itself for open anarchy, if the dirty protests carried out at the firm previously are anything to go by.
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Only recently Keoghs was making a big song and dance about opening an office in Manchester and poaching a load of Clyde & Co lawyers to run it. Some of those lawyers are now being shown the door. One slightly bitter insider, who is also at risk of redundancy, said that "those of us in Horwich, who were paid half what was paid to those in Manchester despite the Manchester lot scrounging around taking our work, are at least able to laugh at that".
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