Facing Retirement, Fox Rothschild Leader Jumps Ship
A former managing partner and chair of Fox Rothschild is leaving for a litigation boutique so that he can continue to practice law.
Louis Fryman, who has been with the 425-lawyer Philadelphia-based law firm for 26 years, is 72 years old and facing mandatory retirement at his soon-to-be-former firm, reports the Legal Intelligencer in an article reprinted by New York Lawyer (reg. req.).
So, when merger talks he initiated with a local litigation boutique unexpectedly resulted instead with a job offer to Fryman from 35-lawyer Conrad O’Brien Gellman & Rohn, after the firm found out he was going to have to retire from Fox Rothschild, Fryman quickly decided to accept the offer. “I want to be an active, participating and productive lawyer for as long as I can be,” he says.
Describing Fryman as a “giant in the Pennsylvania legal and business community,” James Rohn, the chairman of Conrad O’Brien, says he expects Fryman’s presence to further strengthen the boutique’s arbitration and mediation practice. It is headed by Louis Bechtle, a former chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
