Law Firms
Lathrop & Gage to Open Calif. Office By Merging With Spillane Trial Boutique
Posted Nov 21, 2008, 05:26 pm CST
By Martha Neil
A growing 300-attorney law firm located largely in the Midwest. is establishing a foothold on the West Coast by combining with a Los Angeles trial and intellectual property boutique.
The merger of Lathrop & Gage with the seven-lawyer Spillane Shaeffer Aronoff Bandlow trial boutique on Jan. 1, 2009 will not only give Lathrop a California presence but should create a significant synergy between the two firms' practices.
“Lathrop has had a very strong, hard intellectual property type of practice, and the copyright and trademark stuff gets developed out of the entertainment industry,” the Spillane firm's managing partner, John Shaeffer, tells Los Angeles Business. “We’ve been very successful… Continue reading...
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