Update: Brobeck Team Won’t Move to Clifford Chance. Citing “practical challenges,” negotiations by Clifford Chance to hire a team of partners led by Tower Snow Jr., the former chairman of San Francisco’s Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, fell through this week. Whether the Brobeck lawyers — either individually or as a group — are looking elsewhere for a new home is not known. Observers believe a mass defection of a big-ticket group would be such a harsh blow that Brobeck wouldn’t be the same. [Law.com]