In a move that makes it the latest large law firm to rein in expenses by moving back-office jobs to a small city, Kaye Scholer announced on Jan. 28 it will relocate some 100 support staffers from a range of departments to a new standalone operations center in Tallahassee, Fla.
Kaye Scholer’s decision to shift the jobsmost of which are currently held by employees in its New York headquartersto the south comes on the heels of last week’s announcement by Allen & Overy that it was transferring some of its U.S. and Europe-based support service teams to a Belfast, Ireland, office the Magic Circle firm opened in 2011. Bingham McCutchen said last September that it was transferring its administrative operations to Lexington, Ky., while Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman launched a back-office center in Nashville, Tenn., in October 2011.
