{"id":4952,"date":"2026-02-12T18:53:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T18:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/2026\/02\/12\/licensing-team-facing-cuts\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T18:53:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T18:53:22","slug":"licensing-team-facing-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/licensing-team-facing-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Licensing team facing cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p FontSize=\"12\" FontFamily=\"Verdana\" Foreground=\"#FF242424\" FontWeight=\"Normal\" FontStyle=\"Normal\"    TextAlignment=\"Left\"   style=\"font-size:12px;font-family:Verdana;color:#242424;font-weight:Normal;font-style:Normal;text-align:Left;\"><span>One of the largest law firms in the south-west with a widely-respected licensing team is expected to lose six fee-earning roles and one support staff, Legal Week reports.rnrnTLT solicitors based in Bristol represents a wide range of corporate clients.  It is set to make eleven staff redundant in total.  rnrnThe licensing team has four partners and thirty-two fee-earners in its licensing team out of a total 700 staff, contributing around 8% of total fee income.  However, work has trailed off since the implementation of the Licensing Act 2003 in 2005, and the smoking ban last year.  <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the largest law firms in the south-west with a widely-respected licensing team is expected to lose six fee-earning roles and one support staff, Legal Week reports.rnrnTLT solicitors based in Bristol represents a wide range of corporate clients. It is set to make eleven staff redundant in total. rnrnThe licensing team has four partners [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}