Like the rest of America, law firm leaders are trying to figure out what the surprise electoral victory of Donald Trump plus a Republican-controlled Congress will mean for the future.

One Atlanta leader, Robert Highsmith, who heads Holland & Knight’s national public policy and regulation practice, said a Trump administration will be good for practices in heavily-regulated areas such as health care and energy—and for lobbying practices with strong Republican connections. Roger Quillen, the chairman of Fisher & Phillips, one of the nation’s largest labor and employment firms, was equally sanguine, forecasting that the Trump administration will be far more employer-friendly toward workplace law and regulation.

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