Dealmaker: Clydes' Richard Power on court embarrassment, shifty clients and why litigators are like undertakers
Power, who joined Clydes in 2015 from BLP, on real law, velvet jackets and a 13-year 'simple' debt claim that saw him through to partnership
August 25, 2017 at 06:23 AM
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Richard Power is a partner in Clyde & Co's litigation department. He joined the firm in 2015 from Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP), where he led the firm's energy disputes practice and co-led its international arbitration group. He made partner at BLP in 2010.
Why did you become a litigator? Mostly because I love problem-solving, but partly through sheer contrariness. When I was a trainee in Durban, South Africa, I had a particularly aggressive supervisor who told me I'd never make it as a litigator. When I returned to the UK I came to realise that he was wrong: you don't have to be a Rottweiler to be a good dispute resolution lawyer.
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