In the wake of recent support-staff reductions at Duane Morris, K&L Gates and other large firms, consultants and recruiters said more of these types of cuts are expected as firms seek to increase profits and shifts in technology gradually phase out the need for traditional clerical functions.
“I’m surprised that anybody’s surprised,” Thomas S. Clay, a principal with Altman Weil, said Friday, adding, “You’re going to continue to see it as firms look in a slow-growth or no-growth economy” to save money.
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