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Salans hit as nine jump ship for Locke Lord’s City launch

Finch and Abrahams have "not been in charge of London for a long time"? Couldn't be more wrong - before Locke Lord took this guys off Salans' hands, the firm's London office was known to have a long-standing leadership problem precisely because the HRK old guard (esp Abrahams and Finch) still dominated, despite having less and less fee-earning success of their own. Salans may well need a UK merger, but however things play out, they are better off without the people who had failed to integrate the London office fully with the rest of the firm. And to say that it was ok for those leaving Salans to be fleecing the firm without contributing much because some others might have done the same thing, that just sounds like the politics of the playground: "But Mummy, he started it"! And you know what Mummy always says in reply: "Now, now Timmy, I've told you before that two wrongs don't make a right"! Big challenges ahead for Salans in London but they have some very good people in London and a great network, and at least they are now in a better position to deal with their problems.

11-Nov-2011

4:17 pm