December 12, 2011 5:55 AM
KL Gates Adds Seven Partners from Parker Poe to Launch In South Carolina
Posted by Tom Huddleston Jr.
KL Gates announced Monday that it has opened its twenty-fourth office in the United States—and its fortieth overal—by launching location in Charleston, South Carolina, with the addition of a seven-partner team from Parker Poe Adams Bernstein.
“South Carolina has one of the most business-friendly public policy climates in the United States . . . and we expect it to be, increasingly, a destination for national and international businesses,” Peter Kalis, KL Gates’s chairman and global managing partner, tells The Am Law Daily.
Joining KL Gates to open the new office are former Parker Poe partners Matthew Norton, J. Walker Coleman IV, Joshua Dixon, Theodore Manuel, Bryan Walpole III, Jason Walton, and James Bruce. Norton joins his new firm’s global resort and hospitality practice, while Coleman and Dixon will work in the employment and commercial litigation areas. Manuel, Walpole, and Walton all join KL Gates’s banking and tax group; Bruce is a corporate transactional attorney. The seven departures leave Parker Poe, which maintains six offices scattered
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