Law Practice Management
Robinson Bradshaw Cuts 6 Lawyers
Posted Jun 26, 2009, 10:53 am CST
By Martha Neil
A well-known North Carolina-based law firm has confirmed the first layoffs in its nearly 50-year history.
Robinson Bradshaw & Hinson cut six lawyers and less than a dozen staff members in what managing partner Robert Griffin describes as a “very painful” move, reports the Charlotte Business Journal.
The firm, which now has 127 lawyers, delayed the layoffs as long as possible, but finally couldn't hold off any longer, according to Griffin. The six associates and counsel let go were from a variety of practice groups.
“We had been very hopeful that things would turn around a little quicker and that steps like that would not be necessary,” he says of the cuts. “But it just got to where [the economic slowdown] had continued for so long that we couldn’t reasonably foresee the need for as many people as we had within a reasonable period of time."