Three of the six lawyers who founded Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr in Dallas 30 years ago say that good management decisions over the years far override any regrettable ones, leaving the 118-lawyer firm well positioned in the Texas market.
A couple of those decisions stand out in the mind of founding shareholder Richard Kopf. He said the firm decided against merging in the early 2000s with a firm that had a large dot-com practice. Also, he said the firm decided against extending an offer to a lateral in the early 1990s who had a big book of business but might not have been a good fit. As it turns out, Kopf said, that lawyer has been at several firms over the years.
