Troutman Sanders’ chief Robert W. Webb Jr. said last week that a primary factor in his firm’s merger with Washington-based Ross, Dixon & Bell was to gain offices on the West Coast.

Webb isn’t the only one with expansive thinking. Dozens of law firms have planted flags on the West Coast, in the Midwest and the South, with a noticeable absence of expansion on the East Coast during the first half of 2008. Much of the growth has come from large, but not huge, law firms looking to fill in the gaps of their service coverage.

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