Atlanta’s Troutman Sanders and Washington-based litigation boutique Ross, Dixon & Bell won’t officially merge until Jan. 1, but their union was informally sealed months ago over a glass of Napa Valley chardonnay at two in the morning.
Troutman’s Washington managing partner Kevin Fitzgerald and Ross Dixon name partner Roy Bell were perched on the deck of Bell’s seaside home in the hills of La Jolla, Calif., a tony town just north of San Diego. They had spent the day golfing in the Buick Invitational Pro-Am at Torrey Pines, and were winding down from a long dinner with some Ross Dixon clients. Fitzgerald easily recalls the conversation with Bell on the deck that January night: “He said, ‘I think we can do business together, Kevin.’”
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