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Ex-Linklaters chief Angel to join DLA Piper as senior partner

Top of Angel's action list will be: - to merge DLA Piper's profit pools (just as Linklaters & Alliance became one profit pot after the mergers). - to squeeze out dead wood at top (as Links did in Germany and elsewhere). - to create a single profit system that will permit a few outliers but with a high barrier to entry, it will see the demise of large swathes of pseudo partners in US, UK and around the world. - the end result will be a far more homogeneous, higher quality firm. Angel's biggest problem will be engineering a new culture in the firm that eschews volume work and instead seeks to drive up into higher margin work. This will be tough, but essential if DLA is to come at the big boys with credibility. Of course, it could all just be a costly failure with no real change in work or brand perception....we'll see.....

27-Oct-2011

10:57 am