Law firms Linklaters makes first US lateral hire in two years with Baker’s New York litigation chief Legal Business · 28 October 2015 · 2 min read Strategic recruitment Litigation US Linklaters Linklaters has made a statement of intent in New York by hiring Baker & McKenzie’s Manhattan litigation head Douglas Tween, its first lateral hire in the US in almost two years.Your limit of 1 article in 30 days is up. Please login for full access or subscribe. Corporate users - click here for simple access (no password needed). For more information, please contact [email protected] Related ContentMore in this categorySlaughters and Linklaters take the call as Vodafone buys CK Hutchison out for £4.3bnLaw firmsTheresa Hargreaves6 May 2026Linklaters and Proskauer lead on £17.5bn financial advisory acquisitionLaw firmsKate Peacock27 Apr 2026The art of the buyout: how clients rank London’s top private equity teamsLaw firmsWill Lewallen24 Apr 2026Paul Hastings infra pair head to Freshfields after two yearsLaw firmsAlex Ryan28 Feb 2025Gibson Dunn takes heavyweight Sullivan & Cromwell duo in major London playLaw firmsElisha Juttla27 Feb 2025White & Case snaps up A&O Shearman IP trio as post-merger exits continueLaw firmsAlex Ryan14 Feb 2025‘A huge emotional release’ – DLA’s Adam Ibrahim on the longest trial of his career and winning Lawyer of the YearLaw firmsAnna Huntley8 Oct 2024‘It’s not always about winning and losing, it’s about preserving relationships’ – the Commercial Litigation Summit 2024Law firmsIsabel Caine9 Sep 2024‘There is total support for getting this done’ – funders and litigators react to King’s Speech litigation funding snubLaw firmsIsabel Caine21 Aug 2024