Interview with: Bougartchev and Moyne
The co-founders of Bougartchev Moyne Associés explain why they left ‘Big Law’ to launch their own Paris-based litigation boutique
Kiril, Emmanuel, how would you define your firm’s culture? Firm culture is essential to us. After 30 and 20 years, respectively, of professional practice at international law firms, we chose to create in January 2017 an ambitious business litigation boutique with a strong white-collar crime focus where lawyers – 15 as of today – combine …
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Interview with: NautaDutilh
Jaap Jan Trommel, Chris Warner, and Petra Zijp detail the challenges facing firms in the Netherlands and why future competition won’t revolve around price, but client experience
How would you define your firm’s culture and how important is that culture to you? Our culture is deeply rooted in the power of the collective and in these days that togetherness – within the partnership, among the fee earners and the staff – is what`s needed to help our clients be successful. Clients are …
Continue reading “Misconceptions don’t hold us back”
Interview with: Paul Martenstyn
From clerking to funding, Paul Martenstyn explains how his time in chambers prepared him for a new challenge in litigation funding and what the future holds for the market
Paul, you spent ten years as a clerk and deputy senior clerk at Fountain Court. Tell us why you decided to leave chambers for Vannin Capital and what your responsibilities will be as the litigation funder’s new UK managing director. I had a tremendous time as a clerk, especially at Fountain Court, where I was …
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Interview with: Suciu Popa
Miruna Suciu and Luminita Popa discuss the importance of maintaining standards and why neither ethnicity nor gender should impact a lawyer’s advancement
How would you define your firm’s culture? How important is firm culture to you? Our culture is based on several main values: contribute effortlessly to create long-lasting effects, make a difference by a positive approach, take the lead and engage to create solid results that will stand the test of time. The driving force of …
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Interview with: Vidisha Joshi
Hodge Jones & Allen’s managing partner recounts her journey to the top of law firm management, underscores the importance of developing careers, and explains her firm’s innovative new ownership structure
Explain the culture at HJA. How important is that culture to you? There’s a very collegiate culture at HJA. We are all working for one common purpose – social justice. It is that commonality which binds people in all our departments together. There’s also a great deal of shared pride about the results we achieve. …
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Leadership: Richard Crump
Richard Crump talks exclusively to UK Solicitors editor Georgina Stanley on HFW’s international expansion,
targeting US growth, and the prospects of a future mergers
When Richard Crump took up his current role of senior partner role in 2007, Holman Fenwick & Willan, as it then was, had roughly 240 lawyers working across eight offices and revenue of just over £67m. Today, newly reappointed for a fifth three-year term, the rebranded HFW has more than doubled its office and head …
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essential your partners are on board”
Marketing
Your submissions and content can support wider business development activities, explains Linsay Leslie head of
directories and tenders at MD Communications.
Legal directory submissions have been a regular business development fixture across global legal markets for years – starting with the UK market more than 25 years ago. Participants have undoubtedly become savvier about what it takes to produce compelling submissions. Yet, every year we hear about the significant time and cost involved in completing a …
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The Bar: Carolyn McCombe
4 Pump Court’s Carolyn McCombe considers the evolution of the chambers CEO role and tells John van der Luit-Drummond why she has recently returned to her clerking roots.
Described in the latest edition of The Legal 500’s UK Bar guide as ‘a major force’ who has ‘built up an excellent set’, Carolyn McCombe’s career in chambers – like many other standout leaders in law – took a more circuitous route. When studying law at Cambridge, McCombe recalls how ‘all of the most intelligent …
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Marketing
Deborah B. Farone, former Cravath, Swaine & Moore
CMO, talks to fivehundred about her highly anticipated new book, the US rainmakers she admires, and why
managing partners cannot totally delegate their
marketing responsibilities.
In your new book, Best Practices in Law Firm Business Development and Marketing, you write that you’ve seen a number of large-scale changes in the legal ecosystem that law firm leaders and marketers need to address. What are the most pressing changes you’ve seen that will impact legal marketers? I think the most significant changes …
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firm marketing”