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Freehills’ seven announced

FREEHILLS WOULD provide its seven new partners with a clear and challenging career path, the firm’s CEO said last week. And in return, those partners have displayed three qualities essential…

July 01, 2005 • By Lawyers Weekly

FREEHILLS WOULD provide its seven new partners with a clear and challenging career path, the firm’s CEO said last week. And in return, those partners have displayed three qualities essential for their new roles.

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In announcing the appointment of the new partners, who will take up their positions in July this year, CEO Gavin Bell said each held three essential qualities. “At Freehills, to become a new partner, you have to display certain qualities: strong technical expertise, an ability to gain insight into the critical and complex issues faced by our clients, and strong commercial acumen in creating client-focused solutions.”

The firm also announced the appointment of nine special counsel and 47 senior associates, effective from 1 July. These appointments span most practice areas across the firm.

“It is pleasing to see a wealth of talent coming up through the firm — it supports and strengthens our succession planning strategy, and is a clear demonstration that Freehills is serious about providing legal professionals with a clear and challenging career path,” said Bell.

The partner appointments are to the firm’s litigation, corporate, and banking and finance groups. Bell said the new partners “[strengthen] our ability to service each client with a team of outstanding lawyers who are focused on developing genuinely innovative approaches to the challenges faced by each of our clients.”