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Kansas City to take a train or a plane to LA: Lathrop to merge with Spillane Shaeffer Aronoff Bandlow

By Richard Binder

In a deal scheduled to close January 1, Lathrop & Gage LC will combine with litigation and intellectual property firm Spillane Shaeffer Aronoff Bandlow LLP, a seven-lawyer boutique firm whose clients include NBC Universal, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., and Nordstrom Inc.  The merger makes Lathrop & Gage only the second Kansas City-based law firm with an office in Southern California, the other being Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP. 

Joel Voran, Lathrop & Gage?s CEO, says the Los Angeles office probably would keep a focus on litigation and intellectual property matters but also could add other practice areas, such as employment law. The merger also gives Lathrop & Gage direct access to California courts for its existing clients, cutting the need to hire co-counsel to handle matters on the West Coast. In turn, Spillane Shaeffer Aronoff Bandlow will receive more lawyer support for larger litigation cases.

Read the full Kansas City Business Journal story.

Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on November 21, 2008 (boomark / email).