Peter Kalis was sitting with three other leaders of Preston Gates & Ellis and Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham over lunch when they had a flash of inspiration: Their merged firm would be called K&L Gates.

“It was a bathtub moment,” said Kalis, now the chairman of the firm. “Everyone chimed in. It rang clear as a bell.”

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