Latham & Watkins has hired five trainees from Weil in London, as City firms move to support junior lawyers whose careers have been thrown into disarray by the proposed wind-down of the New York firm.
The hires mean 20 trainees and five solicitors apprentices remain in Weil’s London office, all of whom will have to find new firms should the partnership accept the management committee’s decision to wind down the firm. The vote is set to take place this week, LB understands.
