Lewis Brisbois Founder Steps Down After 100-Plus-Lawyer Exit (1)

Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith founder Bob Lewis is stepping down as chair and the firm is disbanding its executive committee a week after more than 100 attorneys left to form a boutique.

“Recent events” pushed the firm to “change our management team,” co-chairman Bob Smith said in a statement Thursday. The firm will expand its management committee to 13 from nine, hold elections May 9 and pick new leaders, the statement said.

“You got to do something to tell the remaining partners we’re on it,” Bruce MacEwen, a law firm management consultant at Adam Smith, Esq., said of the ...