Why is Law experiencing another round of layoffs in 2026 after a previous round in 2025? Why do our leaders continue to demoralize?
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@ey Better chance you have an incurable case of TDS.
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Whats the severance package offer?
A lawyer with 3 years experience starts Chevron at PSG26 and it goes up from there. Have a look in the Whitepages how many there are around the globe. It is nuts.
AI has absolutely gutted law as a profession. We used to pay an army of people to research, read, digest, summarize docs and generate new ones. Now AI can duplicate 90% of that in a couple clicks. We no longer needs many hundreds of attorneys.
Good chance these MOFOs erroneously believe Daddy Trump is going to shield them from any lawsuits or judgements.
The lawyers get paid much more than regular "Career Ladder" employees. They insist on getting paid on the guide curve. Thus, they are paid 3-5x more than a PSG24 Employee.
Time to cut the fat.
You she see what they pay big law firms for consulting on every CVX legal issue, lol. They waste CVX money on lawyers to review meals with government officials.
I was never impressed with Chevron lawyers. Big expense for little value.
MW thinks that AI can do all the law functions. If he really needs legal work, he goes third party. Then it's one and done.
we dun need so many lawyers
just need legal coordinators to facilitate between external contract lawyers and CVX on a case by case
cheaper
Because they hired more lawyers after laying some off. I’m not sure if it netted out, but the optics were bad.
With outside counsel doing all the real work, they might as well hire lawyers through ENGINE to do the oversight role our in-house counsel does.
Everyone is in scope for the next 5 years at least.. 5% will be laid off each year through forced ranking. The ELT has not been transparent about this at all but you can read between the lines based on recent HR communications and changes to the PMP process.
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The way of the employee is gone. Employees are expensive long term and contractors are an expense on the accounting records, deducted in the year the expenses are incurred. Chevron will continue to release employees every year when they can contract resources to perform the work.
It's all about the "Benjamins"