Jan. 28, 2016 — Akerman LLP, a top 100 U.S. law firm serving clients across the Americas, today announced the Chicago office has grown more than five times larger, from eight to 43 lawyers, since opening in February 2014. The office most recently welcomed litigation partners Alyx Pattison and Jason Stiehl, who jointly enhance the firm’s strengths in complex commercial litigation and class action defense. Pattison joins Akerman from the political arena, and is a former partner with Katten Muchin. Stiehl arrives to Akerman from Seyfarth Shaw, where he served as co-chair of the Commercial Class Action Defense Practice Group.
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The Litigation Practice Group also has maintained growth momentum and industry distinction. The team was recently recognized among the best in the United States by Benchmark Litigation for its multi-state litigation capabilities. In recent months, Akerman’s litigation and appellate lawyers introduced new legal products, including Akerman Bench, a mock oral argument product featuring one of the largest teams of former appellate judges assembled in-house by an Am Law 100 law firm. The firm also recently announced Akerman Data Law Center to help clients quickly and cost-effectively mitigate the inherent risks embedded in swelling corporate data, such as government enforcement actions and litigation exposure. Developed in collaboration with Thomson Reuters Legal Managed Services and Neota Logic, the technology-driven platform represents one of the market’s most comprehensive inventories of U.S. data and privacy laws and regulations.
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