A Message From the Editor Good Morning. We're covering movement in the German legal market, where Clifford Chance has lost two partners but Herbert Smith Freehills has hired a 10-lawyer team, including three partners. We also have news about two Middle East regional firms merging in the UAE. And in the U.K., McDermott Will & Emery has added an arbitration partner -- its eleventh lateral hire in London in the last year. To curb all this global partner movement, law firms are turning to "golden handcuffs." Read these stories and more below. – Lisa Shuchman, Executive Editor |