McGrigors

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Overview

As one of the Scotland's traditional 'big four' McGrigors is probably used to getting its own way north of the border - although the firm did lose a seven-lawyer team to Bond Pearce when the southwest upstart made its Scots debut. That raid robbed McGrigors of a chunk of the well-regarded energy team it hired from Aberdeen's Ledingham Chalmers.

Further south, the firm's City arm has also had a mixed time, with senior lawyers leaving for places including Cohen Milstein, SJ Berwin and the Bar, amongst others, while McGrigors keeps hiring in a bid to bulk up its London team.

"Seemingly not a happy ship," notes one observer, although this is given short shrift by another contributor: "I work there and the general atmosphere is content. Not sure where the previous poster got their information from."

Of those persistent rumours about merging with a certain UK giant, he adds: "FYI, [there is] no merger with Eversheds happening. Talks [have] completely broken down."

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"McGrigors got my dog back from my rotten ex!" enthuses one contributor, although the Scots firm would probably rather focus on areas other than its respected canine litigation practice.

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