
Just last week, on November 7th 2012, SNR Denton, Salans and Canadian firm Fraser Milner Casgrain announced a three way merger, to create a new global law firm with about 2,500 lawyers and 79 offices. And today, another announcement, effective June 1, 2013 involves Norton Rose again, but this time with Fulbright and Jaworski. The combined firm will be a global legal practice that will include 3,800 lawyers in 55 offices across the United States, Europe, Asia, Australia, Canada, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. Can you imagine the conflicts that had to be cleared for that one?
These recent mergers are game changers for US, UK, Canadian and all International firms. To deny its impact and influence, whether the future brings success or failure would be inane. It will have an impact and all I can hear is R.E.M. playing in my head…. “it’s the end…..”