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Article: OPINION: Tupe transfers - a new headache for firms and clients.
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- The Lawyer
- Article date:
- March 23, 2009
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Charles Newman, partner and head of the Tupe unit, Beachcroft
You're the managing partner of a law firm that has just won a major new client. A great boost for the firm, particularly in the current climate. But then you're told by the outgoing law firm that you're inheriting 10 of its staff under Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) (Tupe) regulations. This will be a worry. Especially when the client tells you it wanted to switch law firms in the first place because of dissatisfaction with those lawyers, and under no circumstances will they be allowed to work on your team.
This is precisely the scenario that firms will be ...