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Law Practice

Jul. 30, 2002

Partner Defections Need Not Be Devastating

Dicta Column - By Robin Gerber - Every law firm's worst nightmare is being played out in the news pages of legal newspapers and the business press as the saga of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison and its former managing partner Tower Snow unfolds. Snow's departure along with a core group of partners to London-based Clifford Chance Rogers & Wells was not Brobeck's best headline. The episode raises the question about how law firms can detect and respond to a key partner's defection.

        Dicta Column
        
        By Robin Gerber

        Every law firm's worst nightmare is being played out in the news pages of legal newspapers and the business press as the saga of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison and its former managing partner Tower Snow unfolds. Snow's...

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