salz: battle for replacementFreshfields Bruckhaus Deringer last week voted to retain its dual senior partner model after a part-nership ballot – causing French partner Jean-Luc Michaud to withdraw from the firm’s upcoming leadership election.

The result, exclusively revealed by legalweek.com last Wednesday (26 October), means four UK candidates will now battle to become the firm’s UK senior partner opposite Konstantin Mettenheimer, the only German senior partner candidate.