Until last week, there had only been two really high-profile examples of UK law firm leaders moving laterally to a rival – Tony Angel and Nigel Knowles. Last week, DLA senior partner and global co-chair Juan Picon made it a hat-trick, when it emerged that he was leaving the transatlantic firm to join Latham & Watkins in Madrid with several of his colleagues.

With all three lateral leader moves now linked with DLA, his soon-to-be former colleagues are still debating who will succeed him at the helm. In the interim, former partners have been offering their views on what impact the exit will have on DLA Piper.

Meanwhile, the fallout from the Harvey Weinstein scandal continues to impact law firms, with elite US firm Boies Schiller Flexner hitting headlines in the US this week after details of its involvement in attempts to silence those speaking out about sexual harassment were revealed in The New Yorker earlier this week.

The New York Times, a client of Boies, has now dropped the firm as a result of these revelations, after the firm's leader, David Boies, admitted to mistakes.

Elsewhere, we focused on a different, but equally important aspect of diversity – examining the poor representation of black and minority ethnic partners at the UK's top law firms.

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