Three more partners are quitting Theodore Goddard – raising the number of partner defections since the firm’s failed merger talks with Salans Hertzfeld & Heilbronn last September to eight.

The latest losses see arbitration and ADR partner Peter Fitzpatrick head for US firm Howrey Simon Arnold & White and employment partners John Evans and Mark Catchpole depart for Coudert Brothers and City firm Stephenson Harwood respectively.