Miraculously, no member of the firm perished, but the firm itself was at risk. Clients were as loyal as they could possibly be, and other law firms generously assisted with office space and computers. But end-of-year transactions — so important to law firms such as Thacher Proffitt —were less than three months away. We had to be operating at full capacity, sooner rather than later.
The 200-attorney firm was the only large law firm to have its primary site at the WTC. Sidley Austin Brown & Wood suffered tremendous losses in the attack, but Sidley is as much a Chicago as a New York firm and already had another larage midtown location.
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