To chart the expansion of Philadelphia law firms, it is no longer enough to pursue bi-coastal cartography. These days, nothing short of a world atlas will suffice.
Commerce is global, and a range of area law firms are following suit.
The same logic has generated a small avalanche of eastbound activity among local law firms in recent years. It has to be connected to your clients and to what you do best. You have to be able to connect the dots. You have to have a very valid reason for doing this. Europe was a few years behind the United States in many of the mergers and acquisitions that were affecting that industry, and because we already have a national practice in that area there has been a substantial need for our expertise on an international level.