Law Firms Entering Pittsburgh Develop Unique Strategies to Grow Local Offices
About eight months after Daren Garcia took the helm of Columbus-based Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP’s Pittsburgh office in fall 2016, he embarked on its most significant step since the Columbus-based firm set up shop in southwestern Pennsylvania in 2013.
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James Barnes, who is administrative partner of Philadelphia-based Blank Rome’s Pittsburgh office, knows a lot about Reed Smith. He had been managing partner of its downtown office from 2007 to 2009. A corporate lawyer, Barnes joined Pepper Hamilton’s Pittsburgh office in 2014, and in 2017 moved to Blank Rome, which had entered the city two years earlier and has since grown from 5 to 19 lawyers. He was appointed to the leadership post in early 2018.
“I have an opportunity with my partners and colleagues to build the kind of office we all want to practice in,” Barnes said. “I was intrigued by the collection of attorneys they’d put together and the overall vision for the management team to grow a full-service, strong office where we would work collaboratively and aggressively, but strategically, and that was exciting to me.”
"Law Firms Entering Pittsburgh Develop Unique Strategies to Grow Local Offices," by Patty Tascarella was published in Pittsburgh Business Times on October 31, 2018.