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Appellate Practice
Jun. 29, 2022
‘Aggressive’ corporate lawyer market drove 2 firms to merge
“There’s high demand for corporate acquisition. The intense lateral market makes it difficult. Lawyers are staying in their firms. They don’t want a short-term hire. Folks are looking for a long-term platform,” said Fennemore Wendel’s CEO and managing partner James Goodnow, who adds his new merged firm is hiring.
The difficulty of adding top corporate lawyers in the Bay Area was a major impetus for Oakland’s Wendel Rosen to join Phoenix-based Fennemore in a merger of the two firms with 100-year histories that will become Fennemore Wendel this Friday.
“Recruiting experienced and high quality corporate lawyers is a bit of a drag in the Bay Area,” said Dan Rapaport, outgoing managing partner of Wendel Rosen, “so we are excited to be able to tap the tal...
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