Sean Farrell meets Richard Parlour, the entrepreneur and Territorial Army enthusiast who just joined as a financial services partner at Richards Butler Ask a lawyer what they do in their spare time and the stock reply is almost always: “With work and family, I haven’t got any spare time.” However, Richard Parlour, Richards Butler’s newly-recruited […]
Sean Farrell meets Gibson Dunn & Crutcher partner Paul Harter, who is charged with implementing plans for the US firm to start practising English law in London. Paul Harter, corporate partner at US-based firm Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, has been practising law in London for 10 years, yet had never appeared in The Lawyer until […]
Fiona Callister meets Mayer Brown & Platt’s senior partner Jeff Gordon, whose move in-house to GEC may result in his new employer being added to the firm’s client list. Senior partner at Mayer Brown & Platt’s London office and head of the firm’s international practice, Jeff Gordon, is taking it easy. Lightly tanned from a […]
With official opposition to the formation of MDPs dissolving in the UK and the US, PricewaterhouseCoopers’ global head of corporate development Paul Downing sets out the accountancy giant’s plan to dominate the world, says Sean Farrell. Paul Downing is a journalist’s nightmare. Not because he is rude or reticent. On the contrary, he is one […]
As the first lawyer at Linklaters to doff his bowler hat, John Phipson knows how to let his hair down. Chris Dignan meets the family man. Linklaters’ recently retired corporate partner John Phipson acts less like a stuffy lawyer and more like the legal world’s answer to James Bond, managing to combine his obvious magnetism […]
Gulshanah Choudhuri talks to Theodore Goddard’s Peter Kavanagh about mergers, alliances and his reasons for stepping down as managing partner. It is perhaps appropriate that a policeman’s son should decide to practise law. That is precisely what Theodore Goddard’s former managing partner Peter Kavanagh did. Born in Stockport, Cambridge, law graduate Kavanagh comes across as […]
The elections may have gone to a second round, but Tony Scales believes his job as senior partner of Stephenson Harwood is not one coveted by many. Anne Mizzi reports. It is not usual for a chief executive to sit in on and interject in a profile interview with his firm’s new senior partner. But […]
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’ […]