Prominent Boutique's 13 Lawyers Add to Growing National Employment Litigation Practice
CHICAGO, Nov. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP will enhance its national HR Law practice with the addition of all 13 lawyers from boutique firm Connelly Sheehan Harris LLP, a Chicago-based employment litigation boutique with a national practice, beginning February 1, 2008.
"We are very excited to have this outstanding group of labor and employment lawyers join our growing national HR Law practice," said Drinker Biddle Chairman Alfred W. Putnam, Jr. "With this move, we'll have nearly 75 lawyers across the country focusing on matters such as wage-and-hour class actions, unfair competition, labor law, ERISA cases and discrimination litigation in addition to offering full service in the areas of employee benefits and executive compensation."
Michael Sheehan, who co-founded his firm in 1990, said this move comes in response to client needs. "We reached a point at our firm where we needed to expand to serve our larger clients from a firm with national coverage and with skilled veteran lawyers in our field," he said. "At the same time, we wanted a place that would not require us to take the edge off who we are or how we go about working with our clients. We found all that and more at Drinker Biddle."
Name partners Sheehan and Martin Harris will join Drinker Biddle as partners, while P. Kevin Connelly will be of counsel to the firm. In addition, Rachel Cowen and Kristine Aubin will join Drinker Biddle as partners, and John A. Berg and Brian E. Spang will be counsel. Six additional Connelly Sheehan Harris lawyers will be joining as associates: Heather A. Bailey, Michael S. Booher, Nathalie Q. Collins, Richard S. Cozza, Esther Vreeman-Moll and Terence P. Smith. Most of the firm's staff members will be offered comparable positions at Drinker Biddle.
Drinker Biddle's employment litigation practice added Cheryl D. Orr and Heather M. Sager in January 2007 from San Francisco boutique Carlton DiSante & Freudenberger LLP. The firm recently announced that employment litigator Maria L.H. Lewis will be joining the Philadelphia office on January 1, 2008, as one of a dozen lawyers arriving from Miller Alfano & Raspanti P.C. In addition, the HR Law practice added employee benefits lawyer Dawn E. Sellstrom to Drinker Biddle's Chicago office in October from Seyfarth Shaw LLP.
The addition of the lawyers from Connelly Sheehan Harris will come after a year of significant growth for Drinker Biddle in Chicago. The firm combined with the more than 170 lawyers of Gardner Carton & Douglas in January and last month welcomed three partners from Mayer Brown to its securities litigation practice.
"We have a strong commitment to increasing our litigation presence in this office," said Edwin A. Getz, regional partner in charge of the Chicago office. "We intend to keep building upon our strengths locally in the areas of products liability, employment litigation and class actions, and securities and corporate governance."
Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, a national law firm with more than 650 lawyers in 12 offices, concentrates on providing clients with the best possible service in areas such as corporate and securities, commercial litigation, communications litigation, products liability and mass tort litigation, intellectual property, health care, HR law, real estate, corporate restructuring, government and regulatory affairs, environmental, insurance, investment management and private client services. For more information, visit www.drinkerbiddle.com.
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