Anyone have any more intel on the proposed contracting out of Shell US legal work management to Norton Rose Fulbright and Baker Botts? Would mean a significant reduction in attorney staff with legal cases and litigation then overseen for key issues by only a handful of Shell senior attorneys. Another cost savings move in the offing.
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Third party legal is already an entire cluster within Shell and that's where most stuff seems to go anymore. You never get any real answer and Shell can't seem to man up to make a decision with their non-answers regardless. Not surprised.
most people get fired nobody cares
legal team or government workers have the first layoffs ever and everyone loses their minds
@OP is this question based on a staffing level of legal staff from the 2017-2019 when D. Ching and EC laid off nearly 30% of legal? or are you asking about current levels? Asking because after the 2019 (don’t blame Covid entirely because it started before that) and before 2020 we revamped and hired a bunch of legal people to support all of these new businesses that are no longer in Shell. We’ve since spun off or laid off nearly all of that under YL. So without those stakeholders to support, I’m struggling to understand why legal thinks they need to still be here. I’m not sorry; we’ve had hundreds of good people get laid off that actually added value and business. Shell legal complains now they don’t have a free ride.