Seven WolfBlock Partners Leap to Smaller Firm
Seven partners at 300-lawyer Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen are jumping to 45-lawyer Pennsylvania law firm Hangley Aronchick Segal & Pudlin.
The partners are making the move as WolfBlock continues to look for a merger partner after the collapse of merger discussions with Cozen O’Connor, the Legal Intelligencer reports. Hangley Aronchick chairman William Hangley told the legal publication the lawyers didn’t want to stay with an expanding firm.
“These were people who basically decided that they wanted to go small,” he said. Hangley said he has known one of the lawyers joining his firm, former WolfBlock litigation chairman M. Norman Goldberger, for years, but he initially discouraged the move because of his high respect for WolfBlock.
The article identifies the other leaping lawyers as business litigation assigning partner Matthew White, litigation partner Laura Krabill, environmental and land use co-chairs Kenneth Warren and Steven Miano, and domestic relations partners Cheryl Young and Helen Casale. Warren is a past chair of the ABA Section of Environment, Energy & Resources.
A joint press release issued by the firms says the lawyers will help Hangley Aronchick add practice groups in environmental law and domestic relations and add a Montgomery County office.
