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... Tom each to anoint one son as a partner.] After Overy's departure, the role of "senior partner" was assumed by a triumvirate of Godfrey Morley, Willie Martin, and Jim Thomson, but "in reality it was Thomson who called the shots." By all accounts he was a ... property (and to realize its coming centrality to a sophisticated practice), and his death "left a huge hole." In 1971, Robin Broadley, a partner since 1964, left to go to Barings. He had been indispensable in developing the firm's banking work ...