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able sending this work to us,” Redgrave founder Jona- the 75-attorney firm “the go-to law firm for the mid-
than Redgrave told The American Lawyer in November. dle market in New Jersey and the surrounding re-
gion,” Genova Burns chairman and managing part-
ner Angelo Genova told the New Jersey Law Journal
Morgan Melhuish Abrutyn
Founded in 1910, this Livingston, New Jersey, in an interview earlier this month. “When we look at
firm dissolved in late January as co-managing part- what’s on the horizon, an inevitability is that clients
ner Elliott Abrutyn joined the litigation boutique will need restructuring and bankruptcy [services].”
Braff, Harris, Sukoneck & Maloof, which also has a
Livingston office. The dissolution followed an unsuc- Solow, Isbell & Palladino
cessful merger attempt and the late-2019 departure After a 12-year partnership, the Philadelphia immi-
of five attorneys, including co-managing partner gration law firm Solow, Isbell & Palladino dissolved in
Meredith Stoma, to the Newark, New Jersey, office of mid-October, The Legal Intelligencer reported. Part-
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, and an undisclosed ners said in interviews that splitting into two separate
number of other 2019 departures, the New Jersey firms would help them better support clients under
Law Journal reported in February. Morgan Melhuish the Biden administration—although they also antici-
Abrutyn had 25 lawyers in 2019. pated a Trump administration at the time.

Greene Radovsky Maloney Share & Hennigh Baer Crossey McDemus
In San Francisco, the 21-lawyer transactional bou- The nine-attorney Philadelphia startup bou-
tique Greene Radovsky Maloney Share & Hennigh tique announced in May that it had been absorbed by
will join the Philadelphia-based Am Law 100 firm Fox Cozen O’Connor, also of Philadelphia. Nine attorneys
Rothschild, effective Jan. 1. The majority of the bou- will join Cozen O’Connor, including all three name
tique’s attorneys will join Fox Rothschild as partners. partners, who will take leadership positions at the
“Up until this merger, we needed to be deeper on Am Law 100 firm.
the transactional side to be able to say we are full ser-
vice, and I think this merger does that for us,” said Golomb & Honik
Fox Rothschild chair Mark Silow in an interview with In one of the year’s messiest law firm closures, Phila-
The Legal Intelligencer this month. delphia attorneys Richard Golomb and Ruben Honik
sued each other over the dissolution of their partner-
ship, plaintiffs firm Golomb & Honik. Court docu-
Stahl Cowen Crowley Addis
Effective Jan. 1, the 12-attorney Chicago boutique ments indicate that Honik sued Golomb for terminat-
Stahl Cowen Crowley Addis will join Dickinson ing him in an “unlawful corporate coup to oust plaintiff
Wright to form the Am Law 200 firm’s Chicago of- Honik from the firm in which he had, and continues to
fice. The attorneys will handle litigation, corporate law, have, a 50% shareholder interest,” while Golomb sued
real estate, employment, arbitration, restructuring and Honik for using firm money for personal and family
M&A, according to a Dickinson Wright press release. expenses, claiming Honik owes the firm over $150,000.

Corrections: This story has been updated to indicate

Wasserman, Jurista & Stolz that Altman Weil’s merger data is complete through
Anticipating a wave of bankruptcies in 2021, New- December 11, and that Nelson Mullins’ acquisition of
ark, New Jersey-based midsize firm Genova Burns Redgrave is not yet completed.
acquired the Basking Ridge, New Jersey, bankruptcy ¦

boutique Wasserman, Jurista & Stolz, the firms an- I’m a reporter covering the business of law, focus-
nounced in early December. ing on Florida-based and national law firms for
Four attorneys, led by partner Daniel Stolz, will the Daily Business Review, The American Law-
combine with a Genova Burns associate to form the yer, Law.com and other ALM publications. Reach
firm’s new bankruptcy practice in an effort to make me at: [email protected] or on Twitter at @dan_roe_.

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