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| | Clifford Chance, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, Gardner Carton & Douglas |
 | | Less than two years after Clifford Chance opened a West Coast practice in California, the international firm is closing offices in the state's two most prominent legal markets. |
 | | Clifford Chance will not likely be making up the losses from the bottom up, as The Lawyer reported that the firm only promoted 18 attorneys to the partnership, including one in New York, in this year's round, down from 31 last year. |
 | | Robert Finley, the former co-leader of Clifford Chance's banking and financial restructuring practice in the United States, quit the firm to move to the New York office of King & Spalding, where he will be a member of the financial transactions practice. |
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