Todd Rayner (seated, from left), Jennifer Edwards, Morgan Arndt, Danjuma Mshelia and (standing, from left) Nicole Dashiell, Lori Patton, Jamie Turley, Caroline Larson, Brendan O’Dea, Jamie Stone, Catherine Willis, Jeff Golimowski, Emily Doll and Will Bonas.

The leaders of Womble Bond Dickinson—the product of a big, transatlantic law firm tie-up—want their combined firm to share more than a brand. So when Jamie Turley, a first-year trainee in the Aberdeen office, pitched an exchange program for associate-level lawyers in the U.S. and U.K., they signed off.