Reed Smith Gets Thelen Labor Group, Confirms Thelen Energy Hire
Reed Smith has announced that it has captured a premier labor and employment group from the dissolving Thelen firm.
Headed by Linda Husar and Thomas Hill, the five-partner and four-associate Thelen group “will clearly strengthen our capabilities on the West Coast” and enhance their new firm’s growing transactional practice in Northern California, says partner Jack Nelson, who is vice-chair of Reed Smith’s commercial litigation practice, in a law firm press release.
Husar was formerly the national chair of Thelen’s labor and employment practice, and Hill was its national managing partner of operations as well as managing partner of Thelen’s Los Angeles office.
In an earlier press release last week, the firm also confirmed that a 14-lawyer Thelen energy practice group headed by Ellen Bastier is also joining Reed Smith. (A previous ABAJournal.com post predicts the move.)
Reed Smith has 1,700 lawyers in 24 offices in the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, and has traditionally been considered a Pittsburgh-based international law firm.
Updated at 3:15 p.m. to correct headline.
