Ooh La La! Top 10 Biglaw Firm Plans To Open A New Office In Paris
The firm is reportedly hoping to staff the office with attorneys from rival firms.
Ropes & Gray — a firm that brought in $2,992,831,000 gross revenue in 2023, putting it at No. 8 in the Am Law 100 — is reportedly planning to open an office in Paris. C’est chouette! This will be the firm’s first office in continental Europe.
Bloomberg Law has additional details:
Ropes is planning to open a base in the French capital with hires from rival law firms for the office, according to two people with knowledge of the situation. …
White & Case, Latham & Watkins, and Winston & Strawn are among leading US law firms with long-established outposts in the French capital. Although new entrants have been fairly rare, Houston-based Bracewell in July opened a Paris office with an 11-lawyer team from Norton Rose Fulbright.
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Bonne chance to Ropes & Gray as it makes its new home in France.
Ropes & Gray Looks to Launch Paris Office, Eying New Recruits [Bloomberg Law]
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