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Camerons augments Integreon tie with HR hire

14 November 2011 | By Joshua Freedman

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CMS Cameron McKenna has appointed a former colleague of DLA Piper senior partner Tony Angel as director of people to manage the relationship with its HR operation, which has been outsourced to Integreon.

The firm said former ­Linklaters lawyer Jennifer Emery will focus on its firmwide “strategy for people”. She will be in charge of HR, graduate recruitment and learning and development, and will lead the ’Recognising High Performance’ scheme that keeps track of associate performance. She will also be the point of contact for the relationship between Camerons and Integreon, where the firm moved its HR operations earlier this year.

Emery practised as a corporate lawyer at Linklaters and later worked as executive manager alongside Angel, who was the firm’s managing partner. She was later chief operating officer of the magic circle firm’s global corporate practice.

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  • Busy Times | 14-Nov-2011 3:19 pm

    She's got her work cut out. Main thing is to hire lots of integreon finance staff to replace those that've just been made redundant (You know, the ones Duncan went to see begging them to take pay cuts a couple of years back to secure jobs - fat lot of good that did anyone apart from the partners). The management team at Cameron McKenna has lost all credibility and should resign over this episode.

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  • Genius | 14-Nov-2011 3:20 pm

    A lawyer in charge of HR? Absolute genius.

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  • News to me | 14-Nov-2011 3:24 pm

    I didn't realise Cameron McKenna had a people stategy. Oh, now I remember, 'make them all redundant and outsource to Integreon'. Foolish

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  • Comedians | 14-Nov-2011 3:40 pm

    Cameron McKenna's management team have shown themselves to be a bunch of jokers. They're more Dick Emery than Jennifer Emery.

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  • Anonymous | 15-Nov-2011 9:31 am

    Why hire a former lawyer into this role? For the same money (which I am sure will be a lot more than the going rate for an HR director) you could probably get a top level HR Director who has spent their entire career successfully managing and developing people and could bring in some thinking from outside of the legal industry. I have seen quite a few law firms place former lawyers into non legal roles or hire former partners as consultants. I think this stems from the view that as lawyers we believe that we could carry out most business functions better than non lawyers if only we had the time and didn't have to earn fees. What a load of rubbish!

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  • ET | 15-Nov-2011 3:21 pm

    Must be expecting a few employment tribunals...

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