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which largely consisted of The labor and employment groupincludes co-chairmen Jonatha Segal and James Redeker and partnerx Caroline Austin, Jennifer Blum Valentine Brown, Michael Cohen, Philip Linda Hollinshead and John Brown headed Wolf Block’s immigrationn practice and Nixon handles employee benefits whilde the rest focus on employment litigation or labor Redeker said the group was able to bring all of its lawyers save for its two most junior associateas as well as two paralegals, a business managef and at least four secretaries. The additioj greatly enhances Duane Morris’ local labor and employment capabilities.
Duane Morris has 45 labor and employment lawyers but only nine of those are basedsin Philadelphia. The group is headedx by partner Tom Servodidio and includes former Chancellor JaneLeslie Dalton. Redeker said the group received “very good offers” from four He said it selected Duande Morris because of its nationap footprint and the fact that a number of Wolf Block litigators and some transactional lawyer s with whom it worked closely had also joinedrthe firm.
Redeker said the group decided not to speak with any firm that exclusivelt handles labor andemployment “because it’s almos t impossible to represent employers in this economy if you can’ t provide other services.” The Wolf Blockm lawyers who joined Duane Morris Tuesday included political insider Alan Kessler, litigation department chairwoman Dana Cherry Hill office managing partner Hersh Kozlov and nine othert partners.
With the latesty moves, more than half of Wolf Block’s 290 lawyeres have found new firms only two weekse after partners voted to dissolvethe 106-year-old law firm on March 23 because of a combination of effects of the recession on the firm’s core real estate the constriction of credit and the anticipatefd departures of significant partnersa and practices. Redeker said the grouo will move over to Duane Morris on He said he does so with aheavyu heart. “I don’t think I’ve ever been throughh anythingas gut-wrenching as this Redeker said.
“I’m a Wolf Block loyalis and neither Jon nor I spoke with any otherf firm until we realized the dissolution was goinfgto happen.” Klinges said Duane Morris’ national platfornm was key to her decision. She said she lookxs forward to returning to exclusivelypracticing law. “It’ws going to be a fresh start, but it’ws bittersweet,” Klinges said. “This has been the most devastatingbthing I’ve been through. We met everty Saturday to see how we coulsd save things and I have incredible loyaltyu tothe institution, but it was no longer viable.
” Duane Morris has brought in the second-larges t group of Wolf Block lawyers, behind only the 64 that have joinede Cozen O’Connor. The grouo that joined Cozen includes 15 real estate 11 trusts andestates lawyers, five tax lawyers and 28 New York There have been four relatively new partner including corporate lawyers Bruce Lesser, Jason Shargel and Michael Sherman and litigator Brian Flaherty a member of Wolf Block’s executive committee.