"Here's some gossip for you, you *****"
I'm sorry to have to report that our tips folder was misused recently.
We're sympathetic to Slater and Gordon staff, but management probably don't like us very much.
Which means this message almost certainly came from the top:
The piece they're touting is to do with S&G acquiring a personal injury business, I think, and it's doubtless great news. Of course, as Slaters has also been busy axing staff - fee-earners this week - it remains pretty easy to do a 'negative' (accurate) story on the firm.
I'm not sure who would go to the effort of demanding positive PR like this, although we do know that at least one of their directors loves a swear. But, ok, credit where credit's due - well done, S&G. Onwards and upwards!
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S&G are definitely going somewhere but in the opposite direction to onward and upward
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I think it’s a well thought through and accurate tip.
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SG going to pieces so buy the well known firm Jigsaw Law
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S&G don’t want to be a law firm they want to be a services business. Can someone tell me what that means?
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S&G must be odds-on favourites to win the next Golden Turd award.
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https://www.slatergordon.co.uk/newsroom/furlough-and-covid-used-unfairly-to-shelve-unwanted-staff/
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Slaters are losing fee earners not just through redundancy. They are replacing lawyers with automated systems because IT experts give great legal advice.
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The place is falling apart rrom what I hear from friends still working there. The hollowing out of departments continues apace. The cuts imposed by Anchorage Capital are to make it attractive to a buyer and they are desperate to sell and recoup something on their huge outlay. This has been a huge error by this private equity fund and I can't see any PE firm moving into the legal sector ever again. There is just no money in it compared to other sectors such as fintech or emerging markets.
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Check out the accounts nobody in the senior management team gets paid by S&G this year....
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The place is now going beyond a sick joke!
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Any news on the Irwin Mitchell and Slaters merger?
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Whatever happened to that great post about 2 people eyeing each other across the nightclub at 2am and saying "you'll do"?
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Head of PI gone. Head of family law gone. Good strategy.
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Life at S&G now
“Right, people. Listen up! It’s a fucking lockdown right now! We are in a prison drama. This is the fucking Shawshank Redemption, right? But with more tunnelling through shit and no fucking redemption"
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hz4bh9L172U
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IM and SPG. Shit and the boggs....
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Why does third party ownership of law firms never work? Well:
1. cutting costs doesn't work very well in a professional service business unless it's a PI or debt-recovery meat-grinder like IM or Shoosmiths.
2. you remove the career structure to ownership of the business and it ends up being staffed by journeymen.
Never work in a firm run by bean-counters. They know the cost of everything and the value of nothing.
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What an embarrassing firm S&G is.
Keep up the great work ROF.
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More and more good people leaving SG every week now!!. Some of those people brought in lots of big and high profile work.
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Great business.
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Marco, this all part of their plan. Get rid of the expensive fee earners, pass their caseload onto already overworked junior staff. The firm is creaking at the seems. If it’s not sold soon it will spiral downwards with increasing speed.
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Worked at Slaters it is in real trouble now and I worked in finance!
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So many are leaving S&G. Is that what they mean by going places? 🤪
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Their brand is tainted and their business model does not work
The place is toxicity incarnate .
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@exS&G - who has left ?
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more redundancies across the board I’ve no idea who still works in the business. Lack of leadership and poor communication it is beyond a joke.
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The head of personal injury in London has left as has the head of family law. Both very good.
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Senior Family lawyers leaving Manchester?
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I bet they regret that message!!!