This fall Bartlit Beck moved into renovated office space in Chicago, complete with all the modern touches: Windows where walls used to be, maximalist video screens and a minimalist mock court that the firm says is what digital-first courtrooms of the future will look like.

The renovation coincided with the anniversary of Bartlit Beck’s founding 25 years ago, when a group of trial lawyers broke away firm from Kirkland & Ellis—which, not for nothing, now houses more than 600 attorneys just down the street. For all the office’s new-fangled features, the space still honors the history of the building that houses it: Chicago’s original criminal courthouse, constructed in 1893. Conference rooms are named after high-profile trials that occurred here, such as the infamous Black Sox scandal following the rigged 1919 World Series. An old-fashioned safe where court files were stored is still intact.

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