Travers’ employment team loses partner
Travers Smith employment partner Dorothy Henderson has resigned from the firm, leaving just six female partners in its ranks.
Chris Carroll
The firm has made up just one female partner, Helen Croke, since 2007.
Henderson’s departure means the employment team she set up has shrunk from five to three partners in a matter of months.
Incoming managing partner Andrew Lilley is currently included in the team, but will leave to take up his new role in January. Tim Gilbert made partner in the practice in July, joining partners Richard Baty and Sian Keall.
Travers’ current managing partner Chris Carroll said Lilley would continue to work closely with the employment team, but that the remaining partners would have to reduce their support work for other practice areas.
Henderson will continue to work part-time as an employment tribunal judge.
Readers' comments (1)
Anonymous | 16-Nov-2009 1:42 pm
This is a firm which seems to be steadily sliding downwards. A number of partners have voluntarily left over the past two years. Profitability has fallen badly inspite of a large number of stealth redundancies (which had a devastating effect on morale). The firm is looking ever more sub-scale, now only about 1/15th the size of the big four magic circle firms in terms of revenue, with the gap growing ever wider.
Whereas a few years ago it turned down a merger offer from Latham & Watkins it is hard to imagine that such an approach would even be made today.
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