A&O, CC, Freshfields hold steady – for now
Magic circle law firms tend to travel in packs. When Linklaters’ plan to axe 70 partners as part of its ’New World’ restructuring emerged in January 2009, it took only a month for Clifford Chance to follow suit. Freshfields had carried out an expensive ’size and shape’ restructure a couple of years earlier, while Allen […]