Patton Boggs' New Jersey Chief Departs Amid Firm's Upheaval

Patton Boggs New Jersey managing partner has left the firm and joined the Princeton office of Morgan Lewis.  The D.C.-based firm's Jersey office has been reduced this year from 80 to 46 lawyers. - GWC
Patton Boggs' New Jersey Chief Departs Amid Firm's Upheaval: "What’s more, the firm is in the midst of an upheaval. It laid off 65 lawyers and staff in March, when managing partner Edward Newberry told The Wall Street Journal that 18 partners were notified their contracts would not be renewed unless their performance improved.

According to an Aug. 8 article in The Wall Street Journal, more than 20 partners defected during the summer.

The New Jersey office was hard-hit by the wrap-up of litigation over health problems suffered by workers responding to the World Trade Center terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, according to a source familiar with the firm. The litigation — a mainstay of the office, which represented New York City and some of its contractors — ended in 2011 with a $625 million settlement"

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