Honigman opens in Chicago by acquiring 14-attorney litigation firm there
One of Michigan’s biggest law firms has opened its first out-of-state office by acquiring a 14-attorney litigation boutique in Chicago.
Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn, in addition to acquiring Schopf & Weiss, also is bringing in two former BigLaw counsel as partners in the new Chicago office, reports Crain’s Detroit Business (sub. req.). The combined firm now has about 270 attorneys on its roster.
“The culture is identical; our attorneys went to the same law schools as their attorneys,” said David Foltyn, who serves as chairman and chief executive of Honigman. “Both firms fight above our weight class and are filled with driven lawyers who come from real pedigreed backgrounds.”
Foltyn and Steve Weiss, the Schopf firm’s former chairman, were law school classmates at the University of Michigan, the business publication notes. The Schopf firm’s managing partner, Jason Rosenthal, will be in charge of Honigman’s Chicago office.
In a law firm press release, Foltyn describes the addition of the two lateral partners as “just the beginning of our growth in Chicago.” The two are corporate practitioner René Ghadimi, who comes from Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, and Gregory Morris, an intellectual property lawyer from Paul Hastings.
Based in Detroit, the Honigman firm also has four other Michigan offices in Ann Arbor, Bloomfield Hills, Kalamazoo and Lansing.
