Name partner Jerold Oshinsky is leaving Gilbert Oshinsky for Jenner & Block’s Los Angeles office. Gilbert Oshinsky will now be known as “Gilbert LLP.” According to the firm’s press release, long distance relationships aren’t easy for law firm partners either:

Founding partner and chairman Scott Gilbert announced today that Jerold Oshinsky is leaving the partnership to join the Los Angeles office of Jenner & Block, where he will concentrate on policyholder work and expand Jenner’s West Coast practice. The DC-based law firm’s name will be Gilbert LLP, and the firm will continue to serve its West Coast and other clients from its Washington DC headquarters. “Although our firm has active litigation and other business in most regions of the United States, including California, virtually all of our lawyers are headquartered in Washington, DC. Jerry and we found that, notwithstanding our mutual best efforts, this long-distance relationship was not practical for either of us.”

When Above the Law talked with a spokesperson for Gilbert, the firm again emphasized Oshinsky’s desire to build up his west coast practice. The spokesperson said that there was a logistical issue. Oshinsky’s family lives in L.A. and he didn’t want to continue going back and forth from the west coast to Gilbert’s headquarters in D.C.

Oshinsky will be the only Gilbert lawyer making the move to Jenner & Block.

Oshinsky joined Gilbert just this past October. The move to Jenner ends the delightful firm name abbreviation Scott Gilbert highlighted when Oshinsky came to the firm in October:

[A]s soon as Jerry is able to join the partnership, the firm will be changing its name to Gilbert Oshinsky LLP. This name best reflects our new, or in some cases reestablished, relationship with Jerry, as well as the merger of our two substantial practices. And yes, on several levels, we henceforth will be known as the GO to firm.

It was fun while it lasted.

Read the full Gilbert press release after the jump.

GILBERT LLP — PRESS RELEASE — NAME CHANGE

Gilbert Oshinsky Changes Name to Gilbert LLP
Law Firm Focuses on Core Business and New Hires

Washington, D.C. - Founding partner and chairman Scott Gilbert announced today that Jerold Oshinsky is leaving the partnership to join the Los Angeles office of Jenner & Block, where he will concentrate on policyholder work and expand Jenner’s West Coast practice. The DC-based law firm’s name will be Gilbert LLP, and the firm will continue to serve its West Coast and other clients from its Washington DC headquarters. “Although our firm has active litigation and other business in most regions of the United States, including California, virtually all of our lawyers are headquartered in Washington, DC. Jerry and we found that, notwithstanding our mutual best efforts, this long-distance relationship was not practical for either of us.”

Gilbert and Oshinsky have been good friends for 30 years, and that relationship will continue. “I have nothing but the utmost respect for Scott and his colleagues. I enjoyed working with them and I expect that we will have opportunities to work with each other down the road,” said Oshinsky.

“I continue to count Jerry Oshinsky as a close colleague and friend, and I wish him nothing but the best,” said Gilbert. He noted that Oshinsky, who was the firm’s sole Los Angeles partner, is the only lawyer leaving Gilbert LLP. Gilbert stressed that given Oshinsky’s relatively short tenure there, the firm’s practice would be unaffected by his departure.

Gilbert LLP continues to hire professionals to augment its international reputation as the go-to firm for insurance law and litigation. A former Gilbert partner will be returning next week to concentrate on insurance litigation. Additionally, one of-counsel and three additional associates will join the firm this Fall to assist in the representation of Gilbert LLP’s continually expanding client base.

“Gilbert LLP will grow and prosper while we provide the very best innovative legal services to our clients in this changing economy and culture,” predicts Scott Gilbert.

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