Altheimer partner sets up new boutique

Ex-Altheimer & Gray partner Jessica Learmond-Criqui is setting up a niche firm in London's Hampstead from 1 June. Learmond-Criqui left Altheimer after its collapse in 2003 and joined West End firm Collins Benson Goldhill as a consultant. An employment specialist, she will be practising alongside fellow employment practitioner Jeremy Sokel in a limited-liability partnership to be known as Learmond Criqui Sokel.