When Squire Patton Boggs acquired San Francisco-based Carroll, Burdick & McDonough one year ago, the global legal giant brought on 55 lawyers and expanded its footprint in California, China and Germany. The union came at a time when Squire Patton was shedding equity partners and seeing steep declines in lobbying revenue.

A year later, the combined firm’s profits per partner are up 15.4 percent, and former Carroll Burdick chairman Matthew Kemner said that joining forces was definitely the right call. The Recorder sat down with Kemner, now a civil litigation partner in Squire Patton Boggs’ San Francisco office, to talk about what made the combination work.

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