In an uncontested election, risk and insurance-focused law firm BLM has unanimously re-elected its senior partner, Mike Brown, for a further three-year appointment.
Old or new BLP: Which way will the firm turn with its next managing partner?
Berwin Leighton Paisner‘s (BLP) head of employment Lisa Mayhew will face off against corporate chief David Collins in the battle to replace Neville Eisenberg (pictured), the firm’s managing partner for the last 16 years.
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Unanimous approval: Blatherwick gets another three-year term at Browne Jacobson
Browne Jacobson has opted to stick with current managing partner Iain Blatherwick with the firm’s 96-strong partnership unanimously re-electing him for a further three years from 1 May 2015.
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‘A statement of intent’: Can Layton’s strategy reinvigorate Clifford Chance?
Nearly three decades have passed since the game changing union of Coward Chance and Clifford Turner – a watershed moment in the evolution of global law famously executed by figureheads, Sir Max Williams and Geoffrey Howe. This week the firm’s managing partner Matthew Layton unveiled a strategy which will attempt to revive that audacious vision of brilliantly commercial partners and perhaps, a renewed breeding ground for imaginative thinkers.
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‘We have something to prove’: Raynor takes the top role at Shakespeares as Wilson departs
Chief client officer Andy Raynor will take the chief executive role at Midlands-based Shakespeares, as current incumbent Paul Wilson departs after almost nine years at the helm.
Under new leadership: Eversheds appoints senior partner in Paris as Brown departs after 18-year tenure
Change management: CC appoints new COO and innovation chief as Layton unveils new strategy
Clifford Chance (CC) managing partner Matthew Layton has laid out the firm’s international strategy, aiming at becoming the ‘global law firm of choice for the world’s leading businesses’; a vision that includes introducing fresh key performance indicators, making new leadership appointments, and increasing US and Asia revenues to approximately 20% and 25% respectively over five years.
Heading to the bar: Hogan Lovells streamlines dual management role as former arbitration co-head leaves
Hogan Lovells’ former co-head of international arbitration, Simon Nesbitt, is set to depart the firm and join the Bar, a move which coincides with the firm’s decision to streamline the dual management structure of the practice and continue with a single head.
‘Redefining leadership’: Hogan Lovells teams up with Oxford Said Business School on partner leadership programme
Hogan Lovells has begun piloting a new leadership programme for experienced partners with Oxford Said Business School, an initiative which the transatlantic firm says will enable partners to build a unified approach to leading the firm and ‘become roles models and distributors of a strong, shared culture.’
‘A watershed moment’: Q&A with Cooley’s CEO on the firm’s London launch and philosophical decisions
Joe Conroy, chief executive of tech focused Californian firm Cooley, talks to Tom Moore on why it was harder to open in London than China and how the collapse of Edwards Wildman‘s city office created a ‘significant opportunity’ that led to a 55-lawyer launch.