White & Case to Undergo Major Reorganization

Image via WikipediaChange is coming to White & Case, and the name of that change is middle management. Under a new structure put in place this week, firm power will shift away from 35 individual offices and be dispersed among 14 regional groups. There also will be a renewed focus on 16 different global practices. The moves come in the wake of a four-month review of White & Case's strategy and structure by McKinsey.

'The day of the brick and mortar approach to building a global law firm is over,' says chairman Hugh Verrier, who spoke about the reorganization for the first time on Tuesday in an exclusive interview with The Am Law Daily.

For a quarter century, since it took its first steps on a path to becoming a global law firm, White & Case's far-flung offices have operated as individual fiefdoms, with little directive from above on how to grow business, choose clients, or cut costs. But with 2,500 lawyers spread around the world and growing competition from other, more-focused global powers, White & Case's leaders felt a review of the business was in order, Verrier says.

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