Wake Up Call: Facebook Hire Triggers Dechert Partner Exit in London

• Dechert’s London-based co-chair of its international trade practice, Miriam Gonzalez, is exiting the firm with no word yet on her next job. Gonzalez is reportedly heading for California, where her husband, former U.K. deputy Prime Minister Sir Nick Clegg, is taking a job at Facebook as head of global communications and policy. ( American Lawyer ) ( Bloomberg Law )

• With Brexit looming months away, revenue and profits are up at the U.K.'s biggest law firms despite fierce pay competition with U.S. firms for talent, technological disruption, and other challenges, according to recent reports. ( Financial Times ) Cyber attacks, ...