The ranks of the legal profession have been thinned out by the global financial crisis, but for one group of lawyers in the Gulf, that crisis is providing a lucrative line of new work.
Employment lawyers of international law firms say they have never been busier, cleaning up the mess left by corporate restructuring, company closures and redundancy programmes.
Unfair dismissal cases and severance disputes have them working overtime while their company’s corporate practices await better times.
“We have at least one new employment case every day because banks are retrenching without giving reasons,” says Kavitha S Panicker, the chairman of the global law firm ACE Consulta Juris’s UAE operations. “Six months ago we had about one case a week related to employment.”
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