CMS Cameron McKenna has decided to close its last US outpost in Washington DC after radically downsizing the office in July this year. Camerons managing partner Dick Tyler (left) told The Lawyer: “We’d hoped to be able to restructure the office around the projects team servicing one piece of work. But we haven’t been able […]

Zurich has cut its English and Welsh legal panel from 28 to 14 firms. The insurer, which previously had five separate panels, has created one central system. In Scotland, the insurer has dropped three of its five firms. All of the firms which lost out in the panel review will continue to handle run-off work. […]

Midlands-based Browne Jacobson has made four assistants in its business services department redundant. The firm’s managing partner Brian Smith blamed the economic downturn for the move.

Midlands and Thames Valley firm Darbys has hired a new head for the corporate finance unit. Phil Riman joins from 3i, where he spent five years in-house, advising on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and venture capital issues with an emphasis on the US market.