When London-based Clifford Chance recruited its first U.S.-qualified lawyer in New York just seven years ago, senior partner Keith Clark, to ease suspicion, called his counterparts at top Manhattan firms to tell them his firm would do no more hiring here and had no intentions of developing a comprehensive U.S. practice. It is a different story now. Not only has Clifford Chance become an international legal behemoth, it will start compensating U.S. partners British style, in a modified lockstep system.
July 14, 1999 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
When London-based Clifford Chance recruited its first U.S.-qualified lawyer in New York just seven years ago, senior partner Keith Clark, to ease suspicion, called his counterparts at top Manhattan firms to tell them his firm would do no more hiring here and had no intentions of developing a comprehensive U.S. practice.
It is a different story now.
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