Midsize Firms / Regional Firms

That Awkward Moment When Another Law Firm Pronounces Your Law Firm’s Death

Sorry, but this law firm isn't completely dead yet.

Pennsylvania’s capital city is now the newest home of Barley Snyder, as the central Pennsylvania law firm has opened an office in Harrisburg as of Jan. 2, 2018.

The move comes as the firm adds 10 attorneys from former Harrisburg law firm Rhoads & Sinon, which has been a household legal name in Pennsylvania’s capital city since the firm opened in 1935.

— An excerpt taken from Lancaster-based Barley Snyder’s announcement about its new office location, which refers to Rhoads & Sinon as a “former Harrisburg law firm.” According to Rhoads & Sinon managing partner Drake Nicholas, who is one of the lawyers making the move to Barley Snyder, while Rhoads & Sinon is dissolving, the firm does not yet an official closure date.


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