Spillane Shaeffer to Merge With Lathrop & Gage
Spillane Shaeffer Aronoff Bandlow, a Los Angeles litigation shop, has announced plans to merge with Lathrop & Gage on Jan. 1, 2009. The merger gives Lathrop & Gage, a Kansas City, Mo.-based law firm, an office in California -- and will make Lathrop "a truly national firm," says its chief executive officer, Joel Voran. Lathrop hopes to expand the L.A. office to as many as 30 lawyers in the next year or so, including potential additions in employment law, according to Voran.
