Lawyerly Lairs: At The Intersection Of Appellate Advocacy And Artwork
This law firm's office art is pretty neat!
Our popular Lawyerly Lairs column typically focuses on residential real estate, the lavish (or not so lavish) homes of lawyers, law professors, and other legal eagles. But we occasionally cover offices as part of the column too. For example, our contest for the best law firm offices in America was done under the auspices of Lawyerly Lairs. That contest took place back in 2012, and we will surely revive it at some point.
If we do bring back the contest, look for the California appellate powerhouse of Horvitz & Levy to make an appearance. I recently heard from a friend of mine, partner Jeremy Rosen, about the firm’s new digs — and the very cool artwork they acquired:
The California Supreme Court in San Francisco has a magnificent 40-foot mural above the bench showing the Sierra Nevada mountains that was painted by a relatively well known California artist, Willard Dixon. When you are standing at the lectern and arguing in the Supreme Court, you are staring right at this mural.
We recently moved our firm’s offices to the media district in Burbank (we overlook the Warner Bros. back lot), and we were able to customize our space. Given that we are an appellate firm, we built a state-of-the-art moot court room. In the process of doing so, we reached out to Mr. Dixon to see if he had a similar landscape painting that we could put above our bench.
In quite a surprise to us, he told us he had the original six-foot study he painted, which he used as a model for painting the actual mural in the Supreme Court. We bought the piece from him, and now our moot court room has the same painting as the Supreme Court. Given that we handle more appeals in the California Supreme Court than any other firm, it seems appropriate that we now have this painting.
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How neat is that? It’s a perfect simulation for lawyers doing moots for arguments before California’s high court. Here’s what the painting looks like in its new home (click to enlarge):
Some law firms have large and impressive art collections — see, e.g., Dechert — but for a boutique like Horvitz & Levy, the approach of quality over quantity seems wise. Congrats to the firm on its new home.
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David Lat is the founder and managing editor of Above the Law and the author of Supreme Ambitions: A Novel. He previously worked as a federal prosecutor in Newark, New Jersey; a litigation associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; and a law clerk to Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. You can connect with David on Twitter (@DavidLat), LinkedIn, and Facebook, and you can reach him by email at dlat@abovethelaw.com.
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