Southern firms need a substantial New York presence to counteract perceptions of provincialism and establish their credentials as national firms.

ASK New York managing partners to name their chief competitors and they invariably begin with other New York firms. A few minutes into such conversations, the big London firms make their appearance, often accompanied by a pointed remark on the painfully slow progress of U.K. firms’ stateside expansions.

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