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Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's Paris office was the first of the firm's 28 foreign offices to open, in 1972. Initially the office was staffed with UK lawyers, but Freshfields quickly realised that it needed a French law capability. In 1980 the first French avocats joined the firm and it has never looked back.
Managing partner Jean-Claude Cotoni was elected to the role in June 2004, replacing the previous incumbent Jean-Luc Michaud. Michaud is now a member of Freshfields' firmwide partnership council, continuing the office's tradition of contributing to the overall management of the firm.
Cotoni says the Paris office has an important role to play in Freshfields as a whole.
"It does offer the network a first-class French practice in all our practice groups," he says. Freshfields...