Addleshaw Goddard Offers Reduced Hours, Sabbaticals

Addleshaw Goddard, which laid off 19 partners in February and 85 staff in May, has approved new measures to save money on compensation.

Some attorneys will work a four-day week and earn 85% of their normal pay.

The firm is also offering sabbaticals, or extended time off at 30% salary. Salaries have been frozen until 2010.

Addleshaw Goddard has also announced is is keeping on only 75% of its incoming associates, or 33 new lawyers.

Addleshaw Goddard LLP is a UK law firm, with almost 750 lawyers and 1,350 staff, based in Leeds, London and Manchester. It was formed in 2003 by the merger of Addleshaw Booth & Co with Theodore Goddard.

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Posted by Erik Even on July 13, 2009. Filed under Home,Law Firm News,Legal News,World News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry