When two well-respected regional law firms join forces and forge a legal practice of national stature and scale, there is inevitably going to be some serious restructuring and cost-rationalising. The aim is to eliminate duplication of effort and take advantage of the newly found economies of scale that have been created within the business.
For an IT department and its staff, the flurry of activity around the time of a merger is a break from the norm, providing elements of challenge, stress, opportunity and insecurity in roughly equal measure. Thus, if you work in IT the old Chinese curse, ‘May you live in interesting times’, could translate as ‘May your firm merge with a slightly larger rival’.
