Head of Weil Gotshal & Manges’ London office Mike Francies remains philosophical about the glut of departures that has hit the US firm Mike Francies’ main worry last week was whether he would fit into his suit for his son’s barmitzvah. Not how, as head of Weil Gotshal & Manges’ London office, he was going […]
Leading travel insolvency practitioner Trevor Sears is quitting Kingsford Stacey Blackwell for Davenport Lyons, giving the firm an insolvency capability for the first time. Sears has been a partner at Booth & Blackwell, which merged with Kingsford Stacey three years ago, since 1973. But last summer he decided to move, predominantly because of concerns over […]
When head of Edge Ellison’s insolvency practice John Sullivan picked up the baton for a broke British Athletics Federation in 1997 he did not expect to be fighting an athlete’s claims in the House of Lords. Claire Smith reports. When John Sullivan returned from his summer holiday two years ago to learn that the governing […]
Adrian Harris remains undaunted by the prospect of long working hours at US firm O’Melveny & Myers- he’s simply given up all his hobbies, writes Sean Farrell Much is made of the long hours worked by English lawyers for US firms, but Adrian Harris is undaunted. The new partner at US firm O’Melveny & Myers’ […]
When Paul Rhodes quit as Dibb Lupton Broomhead’s managing partner, his colleagues speculated he was through with legal practice. But the man who did much to pioneer Dibbs’ rottweiler image is back – and he has gone to the aid of its arch-rival. By John Paul Flintoff Paul Rhodes, the man who stamped his aggressive, […]
Sean Farrell talks to Stephen Gale, the man who is due next April to be only the second lawyer to take the helm as president of the Society of Practitioners of Insolvency. The words “overworked” and “lawyer” are so often used together these days that they should be entered in the dictionary as one. But […]