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In One Month’s Time, Clifford Chance Loses Five US Partners
Posted May 22, 2009 9:55 AM CST
By Debra Cassens Weiss
A mergers and acquisitions lawyer who is leaving the New York office of Clifford Chance is the fifth U.S. partner to exit the law firm this month.
David Bernstein is leaving the firm to join K&L Gates, Legal Week reports. He previously headed the M&A group and corporate department at Rogers & Wells before it merged with Clifford Chance in 2000.
Earlier this month, four New York partners left Clifford Chance to start the boutique firm Chaffetz Lindsey.
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B. McLeod
May 22, 2009 12:05 PM CST
So don’t go about with holes in your pants,
Or your partners will be missing, like those of Clifford Chance.
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