Staff, Summer Program On Chopping Block At This Am Law 200 Firm
Another firm feels the COVID-19 pinch.
Dickinson Wright, a firm that took the 128th spot on the 2019 Am Law 200, is yet another Biglaw firm that is planning for the financial fallout from COVID-19. Like so many other of its peers, the firm has decided to institute austerity measures to minimize the harm of decreased revenues.
So what is going on at the firm? Tipsters report staff layoffs. The firm has also pulled the plug on its summer associate program (though everyone who was scheduled to participate will receive an offer). And the new batch of associates scheduled to start in the fall? Postponed until January 2021.
According to reports, the firm has issued the following statement about its austerity measures:
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“Our leadership has developed a tiered contingency plan for the potential of reduced revenues. This plan entails reducing discretionary spending, implementing an approximately 3% reduction in workforce, canceling our summer program yet providing everyone in that summer class an offer, and deferring our fall incoming class of associates to January.”
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