Pond Lehocky, a large workers’ compensation firm in Philadelphia, has filed Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) paperwork indicating they will be laying off massive amounts of employees. According to reports, Pond Lehocky will be permanently laying off 76 employees, about 30 percent of its total workforce. The layoffs are said to be effective June 1.
Due to the firm’s high volume of workers’ comp cases, the firm’s staff greatly outnumber the attorneys. Of the firm’s 260+ employees, only 44 are lawyers.
The firm had the following to say in light of these cuts: “[F]or the privacy of our clients and our staff, we do not think this is appropriate to discuss in these unprecedented and historic times.”
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