The law firm that formed from a Lewis Brisbois mass exodus has lost two partners, adding to a list of departures after the new operation’s leaders were ousted over past racist, sexist and antisemitic emails.
Rachel McClintock and Kelsey Scherr, partners at the spinoff practice Daugherty Lordan, on Monday joined the Los Angeles office of Cincinnati-based Dinsmore & Shohl, according to the latter firm’s spokeswoman, Kristen Howard. They brought along an unspecified number of lawyers and business staffers, she added.
The additions are part of Dinsmore’s push to grow in California. The firm in January added 18 lawyers and business staffers after merging with San Diego-based Mulvaney Barry Beatty Linn & Mayers.
Daugherty Lordan, formerly called Barber Ranen, has lost dozens of attorneys after the firm in June ousted founders John Barber and Jeff Ranen. The exits came after Lewis Brisbois, which lost nearly 140 labor and employment attorneys to the spinoff, released racist, sexist, antisemitic and anti-LGBTQ+ messages the two lawyers wrote while working there.
At least 20 of the former Daugherty Lordan lawyers have joined O’Hagan Meyer. They include Joseph Lordan, a San Francisco-based lawyer who had become a name partner following Barber and Ranen’s exits. Others have joined firms including Ogletreee Deakins and Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani.
A Daugherty Lordan spokesman did not immediately return a request for comment.
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