‘Not a decision I’ve taken lightly’: Burns vacates senior partner role as he targets US business for Clyde & Co Legal Business27 September 2016Law firm managementUS Clyde & Co senior partner James Burns is to step down as senior partner to take on a new board-level role at the firm, becoming head of the Americas on 1 November.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 category‘Anything that begins with admin is at risk’ – the pressures fuelling firms’ business services cutsTrading places: Skadden creates new C-suite role as Davis Polk makes trophy sports signingLB100: why global reach is the differentiator for insurance firms as growth slows‘How hard are you prepared to work?’ – partners who’ve made it on how they built a book of business‘We don’t have a large ship to turn around’ – Eversheds Sutherland co-CEOs to canvas partners on strategy plansNRF to incentivise cross-border work with formalised global management committeeClifford Chance names Cohen first New York managing partner amid fresh bid to crack America with Houston office openingInternational Women’s Day 2022: Barbara L. Becker, chair & managing partner, Gibson Dunn, New YorkInternational Women’s Day 2022: Perlette Jura, Gibson Dunn, Los Angeles – disputes