Andrea Tromberg, managing partner of Boca Raton-based Gladstone Law Group, has acquired the firm from founder Roger Gladstone and is planning to expand the services that the now-rebranded firm offers.

The sale of Gladstone, now called Tromberg Law Group, makes the 15-lawyer creditor firm serving Florida and Puerto Rico one of the largest woman-owned creditor firms in Florida, according to Tromberg.

Gladstone formed the firm in 2007 and is moving on to work on his other business ventures, she said.

Tromberg, who was recently elected the first chairwoman of the board of directors for the American Legal and Financial Network (ALFN), plans to expand the midsize firm's practice areas in litigation, formally establish a compliance practice, increase the number of attorneys at the firm and expand the opportunities they have in the legal industry.

Like most practices in the creditor-debtor space, Gladstone had contracted as the volume of creditor cases has dropped. But Tromberg said work has remained steady.

“There are other types of litigation we can help our clients with, and we can help [clients] improve compliance,” Tromberg said. “Our clients are constantly being given new and ever-changing rules. We can be a big help in coming up with efficient ways to work in these environments and to be compliant.”

The firm has already been doing this, but not on a large scale, she said. It will now do more and get the word out to clients that it is able to handle this work, she said.

Tromberg, a former Broward County public defender, practiced at her own firm for several years before joining Gladstone Law Group in 2010. She soon became head of litigation and rose to managing partner the following year where she developed the firm and recruited clients. Gladstone handled more of the business end, she said.

“I have a vision for this place,” Tromberg said. “I had been running it for all of these years. I felt like I wanted to own it. I had good client relations and good relations with all the attorneys and staff here. I felt that if [Gladstone] wanted to move on and didn't want to further invest, I could step up and take it over.”