San Diego Business Journal Article Highlights Firm’s Growth in Market Over Past Two Years
A San Diego Business Journal article delved into the growth Quarles & Brady has achieved in San Diego since its January 2023 combination with Paul, Plevin, Sullivan & Connaughton, as well as the firm’s plans for ongoing expansion in the market.
Firm President Brad Vynalek and Fred Plevin, San Diego office managing partner, discussed the positive impact of the combination on the firm’s Labor & Employment Practice Group, the significant growth over the past two years in the number of attorneys in the San Diego office and the local team’s expansion into practices beyond Labor & Employment.
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The rebranding is the final touch on a merger that Plevin said “went extremely well” and brought to the San Diego office an increased ability to attract talent.
“That was one of the many reasons we decided to combine with Quarles. We’ve had great success since the merger in attracting lateral attorneys,” Plevin said, explaining that Quarles brought to the office a recruiting team, a national platform, and the ability to raise compensation for associates. “I think a combination of those things allowed us to grow and capture more work from the clients we had. We’re also taking a lot of work from outside of California.”
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Brad Vynalek, firm president at Quarles & Brady LLP, said the addition of the Paul Plevin team gave Quarles a “best in class organization in labor and employment law” and allowed the firm to enter the California market “prominently.”
“All of a sudden our national platform for labor and employment is double the size and that’s really meaningful for us and our clients,” Vynalek said. “It’s a strength on strength play where you develop more bench strength, more expertise and a broader array of capabilities.”
Getting into the California market through San Diego was also important, Vynalek said, because now Quarles can build out other practices. The San Diego office has already built out practices in traditional commercial litigation, business law, intellectual property, white collar crime and also added an appellate specialist.