Clyde plans to recruit a further 20 lawyers in Brisbane by the end of 2014. That would take its payroll in the country to 100. Matthew Pokarier, from Sparke, will be the head of the new office. Jacinta Long and Maxine Tills are the Sparke colleagues transferring over with him. Clyde already has offices in Sydney, Perth and Melbourne. Australian managing partner John Edmond says that the Brisbane base will be the last part of ‘a four-office national spread’. Source: Lawyers Weekly