Barlows chief executive Evans set to step down from firm
Author: Emma Sadowski
21 Dec 2009 | 15:16
Barlow Lyde & Gilbert chief executive Clint Evans has stepped down from his post and is set to leave the firm in the New Year.
Evans, who joined Barlows in 2007 from Henley Management College, will leave the City firm at the end of January, the firm announced today (21 December). His next move is as yet unconfirmed.
Evans, who trained as a chartered accountant, previously worked at Clifford Chance, BDO Stoy Hayward and Deloitte.
The top 40 UK firm has appointed chief operational officer David Jabbari as Evans' successor. Jabbari joined Barlows in October 2008 after a four-year spell as global head of knowledge management at Allen & Overy.
Commenting on Evans' departure, Barlows senior partner Simon Konsta said: "In joining the firm in 2007, Clint responded to our partnership's call for change. Clint pursued a programme of modernisation that has resulted in many critical changes at management, partner and office levels. All of these leave Barlows with a strengthened and more effective operational platform.
"We wish Clint the very best and thank him for his unstinting hard work and for the foundations he has helped to build."
Evans' departure comes six months after former senior partner Richard Dedman announced he was leaving the firm.
Dedman stepped down from his post last spring after nearly three decades as a partner. During his tenure as senior partner, he oversaw a restructuring of the firm's management in 2007 which included the appointment of Evans as chief executive, a move which led to the phasing-out of the managing partner role at the firm.
COMMENTS (TOTAL 5 COMMENTS)
Further proof that non-lawyer chief executives don't work in law firms. Unless you are one of them, partners are never going to take advance/orders from a non-lawyer!
Anonymous -21 Dec 2009 | 16:00
No great surprise that a non-lawyer was going to fail in a senior management role at a firm like BLG.
Things seem to be going from bad to worse.
Anon -21 Dec 2009 | 16:02
This is hardly surprising. One problem is that the majority of the most senior partners trained during the period of excess of the mid-eighties when being a partner in a law firm was a licence to print money and you didn't have to be clever about the way you ran things. I suspect Evans told them some home truths which ruffled feathers. They'll prefer Jabbari because he's a lawyer and will do as he's told.
Plus - there's only so many business lessons that can be drawn from rowing a boat across the Atlantic before the metaphors bore everyone to death...
santa claus -22 Dec 2009 | 09:44
SMELL THE COFFEE!
Comments about non-lawyer chief executives not working are old hat, or should be in this age of the LDP and ABS. Firms not willing to embrace non-lawyer managers in their futures will not succeed, especially those with a view to attracting external funding and/or commercial businesses as part of the advance into an ABS world.
Lawyers with such outdated views need to wake up and smell the coffee if they believe that they can do it on their own!
If this is merely a case of it not working at BLG then the firm needs to change its ways.
Non-lawyer -22 Dec 2009 | 09:58
The coffee in question appears slightly tepid
Non-lawyer - thanks for your very general statements. Could you offer a few reasons as to why firms not embracing non-lawyer managers will fail to succeed? On what are you basing your views?
In the current climate a number of firms will be challenged but simply singling out changes in firms run by non-lawyers is hardly good evidence. But of course a non-lawyer wrapped in the fumes of a cup of his own java might fail to grasp that...
Post it -31 Dec 2009 | 01:12
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