Cozen O’Connor landed eight lawyers from Fox Rothschild in a sharp pandemic-era expansion of its bankruptcy and restructuring practice that now allows it to take on cases of any size, the firm said.
The unit grows to 21 attorneys with most of the new arrivals based in Chicago, although the firm plans to practice nationally as bankruptcy filings spike amid corporate financial distress due to the coronavirus hit to the economy.
“We’re effectively doubling the size of our team because we expect that the level of work will be unprecedented over the next two to three years,” Mark E. Felger, ...