14 trainee solicitors called their message machines only to hear that they have been let go from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.  Additionally, the recorded voices on those machines did not belong to a single a partner, but were the voices of human resource workers.  When criticized for not delivering the message personally to these individuals, the firm explained the need to relay the message as quickly as possible so the trainees would not hear it from another source first.

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