Hugh Verrier elected to lead White & Case
August 6, 2007, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and others (continuing coverage)

On August 6, 2007, White & Case announced that Hugh Verrier, a project finance and banking lawyer, a member of the Firm's eight-member Management Board and executive partner of White & Case's Moscow office, had been elected Chair of the Firm by the partnership.

The story received significant coverage, in The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, The National Law Journal, The Deal, and elsewhere.  The Lawyer ran a full page article, quoting Duane Wall, who is stepping down as Managing Partner, and Verrier, on the transition and the new management structure of the Firm, which will feature an four-person Executive Committee and an eight-person Partnership Committee.

"This is where we want to be," Wall said, in regards to the changes and election results.  "We had a well-structured plan that's brought us to this point, and it's good now that we've completed the journey."

The leading Canadian paper, The Globe and Mail, noting Verrier's Canadian nationality, ran the headline: "Canuck Takes the Helm at Global Law Firm" (Aug 14, 2007).  The paper noted "[the election] should finally put to rest any lingering doubts arising from allegations earlier this year that two members of another leading New York law firm had been heard to declare 'all Canadians are irrelevant.'"

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