Miami’s ‘New Breed’ of Law Firms Spurs Fresh Recruiting Battle

Billionaire Ken Griffin’s move to Miami comes amid a surge of private investment money headed to South Florida. One of the hedge fund mogul’s top law firms already beat Griffin there.

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, which has handled at least a quarter of the federal litigation docket for Griffin’s Citadel empire in the past five years, recently hit the one-year mark on its own Miami expedition. The firm turned heads by hiring Francis Suarez—Miami’s current mayor—to work in the new office.

As the likes of Citadel, which Griffin announced in June is moving its headquarters to Florida, Apollo Global ...