Silicon Valley-based law firm Cooley will acquire Dow...
Silicon Valley-based law firm Cooley will acquire Dow Lohnes, effective Jan. 1, the law firms said Tuesday. Cooley will add 54 attorneys to its Washington office. Dow Lohnes has about 77 attorneys in D.C., according to its website. Dow Lohnes’s…
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Atlanta office, with about 20 lawyers, won’t remain with Cooley, closing at the end of the year, firm officials said. “We were the firm in search of a big new platform,” said Dow Lohnes partner John Feore. Cooley is particularly interested in Dow Lohnes’s communications practice, media practice and higher-education practice, Feore said. Dow Lohnes had been in discussions with several law firms throughout the country, looking for “the right fit, the right firm, the right energy, the right platform,” he said. With its multiple U.S. offices and its clients in cutting-edge technological areas, Cooley is the “perfect matchup,” he said. “Around D.C. there was intense competition for this outstanding group of professionals, who have carefully positioned themselves with a view to joining a broader platform,” said Cooley CEO Joseph Conroy in a statement (http://bit.ly/1cSFcTv). “They share a common vision of how our clients’ industries are changing, and we are thrilled to partner with them and shape a stronger future together.” Dow Lohnes had lost more than half of its attorneys in the past three years amid “a spate of lateral defections,” reported American Lawyer Daily last month. “What you saw,” Feore told us regarding Dow Lohnes’s dwindling attorney staff, “was a law firm getting ready to make the kind of step forward that we made with Cooley.” Work on cutting the staff had begun prior to merger discussions with Cooley, said Erin Dwyer, director-strategic initiatives at Dow Lohnes. “Those departures reflect our strategic plan.”