A transatlantic law firm is set to be created soon after the partners of the UK’s Berwin Leighton Paisner and U.S. firm Bryan Cave on Monday voted overwhelmingly to merge. Talks on the merger began in October last year.
Lesley Hobbs, previously the head of client solutions in Hong Kong for Lawyers on Demand, has launched her own NewLaw firm in Hong Kong called Cognatio Law, together with Tim Fawcett, formerly the interim COO of boutique family law firm CRB.
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