IN MARCH, Tyrone Fahner, the longtime chairman of Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, made the firm’s top priority clear to partners at the annual retreat in Chicago: Grow the New York office. A couple months later, Fahner, a former Illinois attorney general who lives in Chicago, took a studio apartment a couple of blocks from the firm’s midtown Manhattan office. He’s been coming to New York nearly every week since.
It’s a good thing Fahner has the option to renew his lease, which runs through the end of the year. Since January 1, at least eight partners have left for other firms-including litigator Dennis Orr, one of Mayer, Brown’s top rainmakers. Revenue in the office is flat this year, according to one partner. And the relationship with the home office in Chicago is described by current and former partners as tense at best.
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