le pard: leaving role as property department headFreshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is to usher in a new generation of department heads over the coming months, as the heads of four of its eight practice groups come to the end of their leadership terms.

The four departments, which each currently have two leaders, will all revert to a single practice group head. Three of the departments expect to see a complete change of personnel as their dual heads are finishing a second three-year term, the maximum tenure for a department chief at the firm.