Downtown Boston. Credit: SeanPavonePhoto/Adobe Stock National Law Firms Keep Shipping Up to Boston, Eyeing Well-Connected Local Dealmakers
Players including Covington & Burling, Blank Rome and Paul Hastings are heading in, and native firms like Choate, Hall & Stewart, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo and Ropes & Gray are targets.
May 31, 2024 at 05:00 AM
7 minute read
Law Firm Competition
What You Need to Know
- In recent years, the number of Boston-based NLJ 500 lawyers practicing at non-Boston-born firms has overtaken the number at Boston-born firms.
- National entrants like Orrick, Blank Rome and Covington & Burling have contributed to this trend, seeking to capture the region's hub of life sciences and tech clientele.
- Some firms appear to open new offices without a deliberate strategy other than to follow their peers.
Boston's native legal market is sustaining aggressive recruiting by national firms, poaching homegrown transactional partners with the street credibility necessary for breaking through to the city's tight-knit business community.
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Who Got The Work
Edmund Polubinski and Marie Killmond of Davis Polk & Wardwell have entered appearances for data platform software development company MongoDB and other defendants in a pending shareholder derivative lawsuit. The action, filed Oct. 7 in New York Southern District Court by the Brown Law Firm, accuses the company's directors and/or officers of falsely expressing confidence in the company’s restructuring of its sales incentive plan and downplaying the severity of decreases in its upfront commitments. The case is 1:24-cv-07594, Roy v. Ittycheria et al.
Who Got The Work
Amy O. Bruchs and Kurt F. Ellison of Michael Best & Friedrich have entered appearances for Epic Systems Corp. in a pending employment discrimination lawsuit. The suit was filed Sept. 7 in Wisconsin Western District Court by Levine Eisberner LLC and Siri & Glimstad on behalf of a project manager who claims that he was wrongfully terminated after applying for a religious exemption to the defendant's COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The case, assigned to U.S. Magistrate Judge Anita Marie Boor, is 3:24-cv-00630, Secker, Nathan v. Epic Systems Corporation.
Who Got The Work
David X. Sullivan, Thomas J. Finn and Gregory A. Hall from McCarter & English have entered appearances for Sunrun Installation Services in a pending civil rights lawsuit. The complaint was filed Sept. 4 in Connecticut District Court by attorney Robert M. Berke on behalf of former employee George Edward Steins, who was arrested and charged with employing an unregistered home improvement salesperson. The complaint alleges that had Sunrun informed the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection that the plaintiff's employment had ended in 2017 and that he no longer held Sunrun's home improvement contractor license, he would not have been hit with charges, which were dismissed in May 2024. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer, is 3:24-cv-01423, Steins v. Sunrun, Inc. et al.
Who Got The Work
Greenberg Traurig shareholder Joshua L. Raskin has entered an appearance for boohoo.com UK Ltd. in a pending patent infringement lawsuit. The suit, filed Sept. 3 in Texas Eastern District Court by Rozier Hardt McDonough on behalf of Alto Dynamics, asserts five patents related to an online shopping platform. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap, is 2:24-cv-00719, Alto Dynamics, LLC v. boohoo.com UK Limited.
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