To be fair to DLA Piper, the global giant has said so many (sometimes contradictory) things about the nature of its global union and future intentions to tighten the union that you could argue – as the firm does – that its latest integration plans are no shift of position, let alone a U-turn.
After all, if you have no clear position, you can argue that you’ve never changed it. Of course, many would see the current proposals for bolstering integration between the two sides of the business (and three LLPs) to be short of the grand rhetoric heard at the time of the 2005 union between the UK’s DLA and us duo Piper Rudnick and Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich.
