DLA Piper Disputes Claims About Lawyers Exiting for McDermott
Crain’s Chicago Business reports that the exodus of DLA Piper lawyers leaving for McDermott Will & Emery is “significantly” fewer than 50 and brings in “dramatically” less than the $100 million in revenue attributed to them, according to an internal DLA memo.
The memo is a response to reports that about 50 lawyers across the country were leaving the legal behemoth for Chicago-based McDermott. Reporter Claire Bushey writes that McDermott Chairman Ira Coleman wrote in a memo that altogether, the new attorneys would add more than $100 million to McDermott’s top line.
DLA Piper firm leaders responded in an email to employees that the McDermott memo contained “materially inaccurate and misleading pieces of information.”
