Motorola Mobility, a feisty unit of electronics pioneer Motorola, was sold last year to Google for $12.5 billion. For most in-house law departments, that would have been the end of the story—deal done, a few retained attorneys move up to the mothership, the rest are let go.
That's not quite how it happened. Indeed, 150 of the 250-member MM legal team either transferred to Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., or lost their jobs. One hundred survived, and were told to start packing for a move, early next year, from their longtime suburban Libertyville, Ill., headquarters to Google's flashy new regional offices at Chicago's historic Merchandise Mart.
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