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July 29, 2009 |
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Coolest Cribs (Part 1)
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| Big shoutout to sponsor Jones Lang LaSalle's 1801 K St. This incredible redesigned space, blocks from the White House, offers multiple floors that would put your firm in an elegant, enduring building. Learn how from Trip Howell. 202.719.5735. |
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| Remember when law firms used to be look like reading rooms of country clubs? Now they’re a little more space age. Here’s the first of a several part series where we go around town being nosy. |
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Cadwalader DC managing partner Ray Banoun looked ready to lift off yesterday next to the firm’s blue pearl marble conference table in its new 90k SF at 700 6th Street. They consolidated their 93 lawyers from two offices just this month, and now, among other amenities, have an 8500 SF conference center, a secure concourse for “hot” (chain-of-custody) litigation material, and a separate floor for contract attorneys doing document review. And sensitive docs are important for them: Top practices are business fraud, antitrust, securities, financial restructuring, capital markets, and tax.
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Not only is this mahogany corridor dramatically curved, it’s actually full of doors that transform a 1900 SF multi-purpose room (affectionately known as the “Wickersham” based on Cadwalader’s second name) into a flowing area for parties. There’s even an adjacent “servery.” (Is it our imagination, or did that sort of thing used to be known as a kitchen?)
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Ray, right, with owner’s rep Hank Pohl of Jones Lang, Cadwalader administrator Laura Raphael, and Peter Thaler of StructureTone, the interior contractor that started February 2 and finished July 4, allowing for a three-day weekend move and an extra reason to appreciate the fireworks.
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| Brown Rudnick Has Other Colors, Too |
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Also yesterday, we popped into the 24k SF Brown Rudnick offices at the Homer Building on 13th Street, where partner Ken Weckstein shows us the conference center entrance in glistening maple. The Boston firm’s DC office opened in '04 and now has 11 lawyers and seven government relations pros. They moved from the other side of the building last year for expansion space, finding they'd doubled their size and intending to pick up additional groups. (Lateral alert: They're actively looking for practices of three to five attorneys each in government contracts, litigation, white collar, and energy.)
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| Boston partner Marilyn Stempler, a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design before she became a lawyer, orchestrated the office's abstract modern artwork. This piece in stainless steel, she tells us, is by Rob Lorenson and depicts the relationship of an X to O. (We guess they don't just play tic-tac-toe when they're together.) |
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Now, this may not be the last word in modern technology, but Ken says it's a far cry from how he practiced for several decades: everything in conference rooms, from automatic window shades to multi-screened live feeds from five other offices for monthly partner meetings, is at his fingertip. Now he just needs the right prescription to see all the commands.
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These may look like staid government contract lawyers, but don’t be fooled: That bright red background should give away the fact that the firm has many dimensions. Tammy Hopkins, left, was a Peace Corps volunteer in The Gambia, Amy Walborn flew ES3A sea Shadows off aircraft carriers in the Pacific, and Shlomo Katz is a trained architect. (But in this case he only had to carry boxes: Gensler was the architect and Rand the contractor.)
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