Lawyerly Lairs: Gotham Law Firms on the Prowl
If you’ll be interviewing at law firms this fall, make sure you double check the address of the place you’re headed to. Law firms are constantly on the move and trading spaces. From the New York Observer (which follows commercial real estate as obsessively as we follow law firm layoffs):
Entertainment law powerhouse Pryor Cashman, whose clients include Penthouse founder Bob Guccione and numerous American Idol contestants, is in negotiations for 100,000 square feet at 605 Third Avenue, the 44-story glass box of a building owned by Fisher Brothers….[T]he firm right now occupies about 100,000 square feet of contiguous space in three buildings, which means three leases—all of which expire at the end of next year—and three landlords.
That sounds rather inefficient — and annoying. But there are other firms that occupy multiple buildings in the same city. E.g., Skadden and Mayer Brown, in D.C.
Pryor Cashman isn’t the only law firm in search of new digs. The Observer reports that Paul Weiss and Fitzpatrick Cella are also in search of over 100,000 square feet apiece.
Favored American Idol Lawyers Negotiating Lease at 605 Third [New York Observer]
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Comments
Finally First!
I don't want to move!
Blokes at my preparatory academy frequently occupied pads in scattered locations throughout our sprawling 324-acre campus. We never raised a ballyhoo about it.
Just make sure you don't show up to Paul Hastings for your interview with Paul Weiss.
#4 - no. Just make sure you don't show up to Skadden for your interview with Skadden.
Mayer Brown will have a new building in DC in 2010 - I think - it is at 18th or 19th and K.
slow day, lat?
The title of this post is misleading. Having just seen Dark Knight, I'm pretty sure Gotham is Chicago.
8 - The name Gotham referring to NYC dates back to Washington Irving in 1807. Chicago's got nuttin' on that.
Who cares?
Pryor Cashman isn't scattered. It is technically in three buildings, but it is a contiguous space. As you walk down their halls, you pass between multiple buildings.
Having not lived in a cave my entire life, i'm pretty sure Gotham is NYC.
Gotham = NYC
Chicago = TTT
For all you comic dorks:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotham_City
Chicago = The Windy City; Second City, Chi-Town, My Kind of Town, and
"Hog butcher for the world,
Tool maker, stacker of wheat,
Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler;
Stormy, husky, brawling,
City of the big shoulders."
ROWAN
6- Mayer who?
Third Avenue is so TTT.
You should do a post about something important.
For example, you could do a post about how globalization is terrible for the U.S. because now both manufacturing AND service industry jobs are leaving the country:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/business/12transfer.html?_r=1&ref=business&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin
It's time to start really taking on the idiocy that spouts out of the mouths of the pro-globalization crowd.
Stooping to new levels of uninterestingness, ATL. Well done!
Oh, and SUCK IT!