Mark Silow, Fox RothschildWest Palm Beach Office Is Part of Fox Rothschild Aviation Switch From LeClairRyan
Attorneys in five cities are part of Fox Rothschild's expansion as the law firm grabs an aviation team from LeClairRyan.
July 24, 2019 at 11:02 AM
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The original version of this story was published on The American Lawyer
A 15-member aviation team from LeClairRyan plans to join Fox Rothschild in West Palm Beach, Washington, New York, Dallas and San Francisco.
Fox Rothschild didn't disclose its West Palm Beach addition, but LeClairRyan's website lists only two people: Robert Wayne, a real estate transactions member, and Alex Braunstein, an aviation associate formerly with Morgan & Morgan and the Palm Beach state attorney's office.
Mark A. Dombroff in Alexandria, Virginia, and Diane Westwood Wilson in New York, who joined LeClairRyan in 2017, are leading the group to Fox. Given Dombroff's location, Philadelphia-based Fox Rothschild is opening an office in Northern Virginia.
“Mark, Diane and their team are entrenched in the aviation space and have been involved in nearly every significant airline matter and incident in the United States and abroad,” Mark Silow, chair of Fox Rothschild, said in a statement Wednesday. “This marquee group is an outstanding and welcome addition to the firm, and their expansive practice positions Fox as an industry leader in aviation-related litigation, commercial disputes and FAA compliance, regulatory and safety issues.”
The firm previously had a small aviation group led by Dallas partner Tressie E. McKeon, who handled the work as part of her wider litigation practice.
“This will really be establishing a significant practice for the first time,” Silow said in an interview.
He said he has known Dombroff and Westwood Wilson for a number of years and they reached out to him about a potential move.
Before joining LeClairRyan, the pair worked together at McKenna Long & Aldridge and stayed as the firm merged into Dentons in 2015.
Fox Rothschild is still looking for the new Virginia location, which will initially host Dombroff and three to five other lawyers from the new team. The firm is also looking to recruit lawyers in other practice groups to build out the office, although Silow declined to give details on what areas it was targeting.
LeClairRyan has been hemorrhaging attorneys in recent months. In June, four financial services litigators in Boston, Dallas and New York left the firm for McGlinchey Stafford, and another five attorneys in Boston, New York and Newark jumped to Duane Morris.
While the firm ranked 179th on the 2019 Am Law 200, its equity partnership contracted by more than a quarter in 2018, down to 90 partners from 124 the prior year.
However, the firm also added a Dallas office in May, becoming the firm's second Texas-based office after Houston. Founded two decades ago in Richmond, Virginia, LeClairRyan has its largest offices in Richmond and Alexandria.
The firm's revenue and head count peaked in 2015, when it grossed $163 million and employed 353 attorneys, according to ALM data. By last year revenue had fallen to $122.5 million, and head count stood at 273 lawyers.
A representative from LeClairRyan had no comment by deadline.
The firm has said it is restructuring, invoking a “Law Firm 2.0″ model that calls for growth in locations where clients want the firm to be. As part of that vision, it entered a joint venture in 2018 with alternative legal services provider UnitedLex.
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