Nick Geannacopulos did something unusual at Seyfarth Shaw’s partner retreat, held last month at a seaside hotel in Laguna Niguel, Calif. He gathered 50 California partners at the 753-lawyer firm, which has a strong practice in labor and employment law, for a meeting, but he wouldn’t let the labor lawyers say a word until they’d heard from every other practice group.

Chicago-based Seyfarth has, for several years, been trying to move past its roots to become a more full-service firm, and Geannacopulos, a labor lawyer who heads the firm’s San Francisco office, said the idea was to make sure his labor and employment colleagues knew about the other practices, like bankruptcy and real estate, that the firm has begun building.

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