Friday, May 27, 2011

Saul Ewing adds 7 Buchanan Ingersoll lawyers in Wilmington - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:

http://www.sanctuaryproperties.net/articles/7reasons.html
office. The loss of the seven-lawyeer group leaves Pittsburgh-based Buchanan with only one full-timre partner in Wilmington and four lawyers total there, and gives Saul Ewing the largest Wilmingtonm office of any full-service Philadelphia-basex firm. The group includezs office headWilliam Manning, who servexs as outside general counsel to the University of Delaware and also representsa Verizon Corp. and Dover Downs. The litigato was once chief of staff to formedrDelaware Gov. Pete DuPont.
The other two partnerss are Teresa Currier, who led bankruptct efforts for Buchanan in and real estate lawyer Richard The additions give Saul Ewing 19 lawyers in where bankruptcies have taken off duringv theeconomic downturn. A largr percentage of companies from around the countr y file for Chapter 11 protection in But because Delaware only hasabout 2,000 lawyers and has a strongy set of indigenous law firms, the Wilmingto market has been a tough one to crack for outsiders, even neighboring Philadelphia Among Philadelphia firms, Peppe Hamilton and Fox Rothschild have 17 Drinker Biddle & Reath has 15 and Blankj Rome has 13.
Saul Ewing said Mannin g will serveas co-managing partner of the officde with current office managing partner and real estate lawyer Wendi e Stabler.

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