Locke Lord LLP Combines Chicago Locations; Strengthens Firm’s Operations in Strategic Market

April 2, 2015 – In a move to strengthen its presence in a key strategic market, Locke Lord ‎LLP announced today that it is now operating from one Chicago location, bringing together ‎lawyers and staff from legacy Locke Lord and legacy Edwards Wildman Palmer less than ‎three months after the merger of the two law firms.‎

The move took place over the weekend bringing more than 250 lawyers and staff together in ‎one office at 111 South Wacker Drive. The Locke Lord Chicago lawyers provide a ‎comprehensive range of legal services in areas of insurance and reinsurance, business ‎litigation, corporate, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, finance and securities, ‎consumer finance, class actions, intellectual property and technology, labor and ‎employment and real estate.‎

‎“Physically combining our two Chicago offices was a top priority from day one of our ‎merger,” said the Firm’s Chicago Office Managing Partner Jennifer Kenedy. “Having all ‎Chicago attorneys and staff under one roof is critical to integration and will enable us to more ‎quickly maximize the practice synergies our combination creates, both here in Chicago and ‎firmwide.”  ‎

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Locke Lord is a full-service, international law Firm of approximately 1,000 lawyers working ‎from 23 offices to meet clients’ needs around the world. With a combined history of more ‎than 125 years and a greatly enhanced domestic and global footprint, Locke Lord is a ‎worldwide leader in the middle market sector. Locke Lord advises clients across a broad ‎spectrum of industries including energy, insurance and reinsurance, private equity, ‎telecommunications, technology, real estate, financial services and health care and life ‎sciences, while providing a wealth of experience through its complex litigation, regulatory, ‎intellectual property and fund formation teams. ‎