The ladies room at Clifford Chance’s New York office is replete with small luxuries usually found in the dressing rooms of private clubs-moisturizing lotion, hair spray, mouthwash, and fragrance, among other niceties. But what really stands out are the bottles of Molton Brown soap perched to the right of each basin.
Fine English soap gracing the counters of a washroom in midtown Manhattan is a minor yet telling detail. Like Molton Brown, Clifford Chance is a London-based institution that has transformed itself into an international brand-albeit one that has had a hell of a time keeping some of its American partners in line since a messy 2000 merger with New York’s Rogers & Wells.
