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Streamlined firms emerge from ashes of annus horribilis

If firms have to put all this information in their LLP filings, which obviously anyone can access at Companies House, then why don't they just come out and say exactly what they are doing in the first place? It seems archaic that firms still hide behind their sacred partnerships when in reality they are massive businesses. It doesn't make sense for them to pretend they are trying to protect the identities of the people who are shoved out (their beloved partners) when they refuse to be specific about how many partners have gone from which departments. If Cliffod Chance, for example, had just said x partners have gone from corporate and y from finance most people would accept that and think good on them for being so honest. No one really cares about who exactly they are, unless perhaps you'relooking to hire a former CC partner. Being secretive makes you think there's something to hide, and that certainly makes me want to look up their LLP filings to try to work out what that is.

2-Dec-2009

11:18 am