It has been an unsettling few months for the members of Eversheds’ East Midlands practice. The reorganisation of the corporate department and the loss of three corporate partners from the firm’s office in Nottingham has even led to rumours that the firm is pulling out of the city, to focus its fire on the potentially more lucrative West Midlands market.
If so, it would be very damaging for those firms that remain, even if they did benefit in the short term from the departure of a major competitor. Losing the big brand names from a legal market diminishes the pulling power of the rest of that market, and Nottingham’s legal community will be fervently hoping that the rumours are unfounded.
