David Morley is a man on the go. The Allen & Overy senior partner spends a full six months touring the Magic Circle firm’s fast-growing international network each year. His relentless travel schedule dictated that the interviews for this feature take place via videoconference from the firm’s Tokyo office. (It also explains why the accompanying photographs show an English, London-based head of a U.K. firm posing in New Delhi, India.)

“I’d rather be at home,” says Morley with a tired sigh as we sit down this fall in front of screens that are eight hours and 6,000 miles apart, “but nobody ever got anything done just waiting behind their desk in London.”

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