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I did a year in litigation before the then senior partner came to me and said there was a much shorter ladder for promotion in banking and I should join. What I didn't realise he Replica rolex day-date-ii president watch rrx0904066 saying until looking back about 20 years later was, 'You have no hope of a promotion or achievement in litigation - move quickly!'"Work aside, it is likely to be his love of sailing that gives him his next project. His brother, a surveyor, is also set to retire. "Maybe that's it, we'll go on a big sailing trip. He's the bigger brother anyway so we'll have to do what he says." Somehow it's hard to imagine Popham ever just doing what someone else says.

"I've known Stuart a long time, both as a banking partner and as senior partner. The thing that strikes you most about him is his self-deprecating sense of humour - he sees the replica Rolex Datejust Turn-O-Graph 'Thunderbird' watc side of life and it's hard to be in his company and not be laughing. That always struck me as a great gift in a serious profession. He's a people person and that has manifested in many ways, including his extensive network. I know he's also a keen yachtsman. I wish him a long and replica Rolex explorer II watch RRX0905001 retirement!" - David Morley, senior partner at Allen & Overy"I have only ever had one job interview in my life - 1 think that qualifies me as a Stepford wife," quips former Clifford Chance (CC) senior partner Stuart Popham.

As it turns out, though, one interview was all it took to launch a barrage of high-profile roles over the ourse of more than three decades - not least as one of a chosen few to accompany Prime Minister David Cameron on foreign delegations.It is this kind of shoulder-rubbing that has really put Popham, who this December stepped replica Rolex Datejust Turn-O-Graph 'Thunderbird' watc as CC senior partner after eight years, on the map -not through his own desire to be catapulted into the spotlight, but through an ambition to raise the profile of CC in the eyes of those he calls "influencers"."I intentionally set out eight years ago to make sure that CC was engaged. We weren't always the first name that Government came up with, and I concluded as senior partner that I would need to enhance our name recognition among these influencers," says Popham.