After Working Solo for 33 Years, Lawyer Joins Buchanan Ingersoll
Pennsylvania lawyer Tom Bergstrom has worked solo for 33 years, but he’s giving it up to join the white-collar defense practice at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney in Philadelphia.
Most recently, Bergstrom worked in a barn outside his home in Malvern, Pa., spending part of his time caring for his wife, Dee, who died last year, the Legal Intelligencer reports. Bergstrom told the publication that the time was right to make the move to a firm with a larger support network.
“There comes a time where you don’t really want to do all the research that needs to be done and you have younger people interested in doing it,” he said.
As a solo, Bergstrom handled white-collar and criminal defense, representing clients accused of offenses including tax and bank fraud, racketeering, murder and illegal drugs.
He’s not the only lawyer who recently made the leap from his own practice to BigLaw. Securities lawyer and artist Charles Hecht recently announced he is closing his boutique law firm to move to Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz. Hecht said he wanted to spend more time practicing law and less time on administration.
Asked if he would miss running a law firm, Hecht replied, “You know what? I think it’s something I’ll get used to very quickly.”
