Clydes COO Jabbari quits firm year after BLG merger
Clyde & Co chief operating officer David Jabbari has left the firm one year after the merger between Clyde & Co and his former firm Barlow Lyde & Gilbert (BLG).
David Jabbari
Jabbari was chief executive of Clydes legacy firm BLG. It is understood that he was one of the key instigators for the merger, which went live on 1 November 2011 (8 August 2011).
He said of his decision to leave the firm: “The Clydes-BLG merger has created a world-beating firm. I’m extremely proud of the part I was able to play in creating it. I’m passionate about the new world of legal services reform and external investment in the legal sector. I want to play a leading role in that new world and now is the time to do that.”
Jabbari first joined BLG as chief operating officer in 2009, and was made chief executive in 2011. Before joining BLG Jabbari was at Allen & Overy, where he was global head of knowledge management. Jabbari began his career at Bird & Bird.
In a statement, a spokesperson for Clydes said: “David played a critical role in bringing about the Clydes-BLG merger and we thank him for all he has done for the merged firm, where he has been involved in driving forward a number of our regional strategies. We’re sure he will bring his many skills to bear in his next endeavour and wish him every success.”
Readers' comments (16)
Anonymous | 5-Nov-2012 10:36 am
The unkindest cut of all?
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Catalogue man | 5-Nov-2012 10:53 am
Clydes gave him a year's deal. Watch out for a wave of ex BLG people "resigning" in six month's time.
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jaabbo twanky | 5-Nov-2012 4:12 pm
There were some 104 or so BLG partners at time of alleged merger.
Christmas quiz - How many BLG partners are still at Clydes? Answers here, please.
Me say, 51 (less than half). Any bidders?
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Anonymous | 6-Nov-2012 11:53 am
Jabba the Cut is cut! It shows that Clydes know how to run a law firm.
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Anon | 6-Nov-2012 1:16 pm
Couldn't Clydes have found Jabbari a role in knowledge management?
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twinky poojobba | 6-Nov-2012 3:42 pm
55 blg pardners left and going down......
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Surprised | 7-Nov-2012 5:29 pm
Amazed it took as long as that. Was there a single fee-earning partner who rated him?
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Those who can fee earn, those who can't manage | 7-Nov-2012 10:31 pm
Is there a single fee earning partner who rates those "promoted" to management roles? How quickly do they lose touch with reality? Those fee earners elevated to senior management roles attempting to micro manage is an all too familiar story.
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Anonymous | 8-Nov-2012 3:51 pm
Good to see that Clydes can see through the spiel & figure out who actually does a day's work.
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Anonymous | 8-Nov-2012 3:56 pm
All BLG partners have an 18 month lock in: after that, it's every man for himself. Tick-tock.
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Anonymous | 8-Nov-2012 4:06 pm
I expect that Clydes will catch up with all of them who make more noise than they do work.
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Anonymous | 9-Nov-2012 7:07 am
As a former BLG lawyer in Manchester I am sad to see Jabbari leave. He was one of the few that made a real effort to make everyone feel welcome. The same can't be said for the Clyde & Co mob who rarely crossed the M25 ...
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Anonymous | 13-Nov-2012 7:36 pm
For someone who konws the BLG firm firm well it is a sad day for Clyde & Co. Its a shame that the senior people at the new firm especially the leader don't actually understand what real management is about
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Anonymous | 15-Nov-2012 1:35 pm
One of the problems with Law firms generally is their lack of recognition of the value of anyone other than fee earning staff, and this is doubly true of senior poitions.
Most Partners find it very difficult to accept, what the rest of the commercial world knows, that someone does not need to be a lawyer, let alone a fee earning lawyer, to understand the economics of a law firm and how to make it run better. I suspect it is a lot about ego and little about reality.
It does explain why law firms will always be poor cousins to the Accountancy firms in terms of how professionally well run they are.
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Anonymous | 16-Nov-2012 3:11 pm
no, I am afraid it is the fact that a high proportion of the non lawyers brought into senior management positions have proved to be all mouth and no trousers or, in some cases, complete charlatans.
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Anonymous | 16-Nov-2012 4:40 pm
There is a degree of circularity and inevitability here, of course : the best managers are unlikely to go into law firms as they will almost invariably be perceived by partners as second-class citizens and they will be perceived as second class often because, in reality, if they were any good, they wouldn't have opted to be kicked around in a law firm !
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