9 July 2020 Financial Times E Copestake Appt

Coverage of the appointment of Emma Copestake as a Partner in the Property Department at Payne Hicks Beach as of 1 July 2020, first published online in the Financial Times on 9 July 2020 and reproduced with kind permission https://ep.ft.com/permalink/emails/eyJlbWFpbCI6ImI3MTFlNmI1YTVkM2QyNThkNjkyYmNhNGE2ZGM0OGY5Y2FjMTJkOThhMjc0M2NmMGQ4M2R lY2FkODBjZTQxOTgiLCJ0cmFuc2FjdGlvbklkIjoiZGJjZmQxZDMtNzk1Ny00OGQzLWFmNTMtMmE1YjcyZGQwZmI3In0%3D

FINANCIAL TIMES

Emma Copestake Partner, Property

Full Disclosure: What the legal world is reading this week

KATE BEIOLEY - JULY 9 2020

Musical chairs:

• Payne Hicks Beach hired property partner Emma Copestake from Withersworldwide.

• FisherBroyles added partner Ari Levine in Philadelphia, from Rimon Law, and Gary Rinkerman in Washington DC, from Culhane Meadows.

• Clyde & Co hired cyber crime specialist Chris Williams, an intellectual property partner from Blake Morgan, and Ian Birdsey, a cyber specialist, from Pinsent Masons.

• Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer added securities and shareholder litigation partner Mary Eaton in New York to co-head the firm’s securities and shareholder litigation practice from Wilkie Farr.

• McGuire Woods hired Simon Hems, energy litigation partner, from Ince Gordon Dadds in London.

Spare a thought this week for the kitchen table lawyers – those in junior roles who have been forced to fight for space in flatshares and turn their

kitchens into home/ work/ eating/ gaming spaces.

There is no doubt that lockdown has been a vastly different experience depending on factors such as your access to a home office (or indeed, to a garden, paddling pool or barbecue…).

But it has also exposed a faultline between senior and junior lawyers, who in most cases have fared differently because of the space constraints suffered by many at the start of their career and the sudden lack of face-to- face support and monitoring from senior members of a team.

Those with young families are also under strain. And junior lawyers also have to contend with the stresses of delayed exams, or traineeships, making this an even more difficult period.

I want to know how you think this issue can be eased? Are you a junior lawyer who has hated working remotely? Are you working from home with a young family and pulling your hair out? Or is loneliness the more pernicious threat, which can happen to anyone, at any stage. Let me know at @KateBeioley_FT.

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