- Gallivan, White & Boyd, a 60+ year old Greenville, SC firm, expanded its southeastern presence by opening a Charlotte office
- Retained by out-of-state firm to locate a managing partner for its large Charlotte office
- Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice and Buist Moore Smythe McGee, one of Charleston’s oldest and largest firms, have merged
- Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice merged with Hall & Bowers, LLC adding a Columbia, SC office. Ken Young, who brokered the deal, was interviewed by the North Carolina Lawyers Weekly
- Kilpatrick Townsend opened a Dallas office by merging with a well-established Dallas boutique
- Multi-state law firm expanded its Florida footprint by opening a Ft. Lauderdale office
- A new office for an Atlanta-based, national labor and employment law firm
- McGuire Woods opened a London office by merging with Grundberg, Mocatta and Rakison, LLP
- Large, St. Louis based firm opened its first Kansas office
