K&L Gates Opens 25-Lawyer Nashville Office, Citing City’s Growth

K&L Gates has opened a Nashville office with 25 new lawyers, including 18 partners from Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis; Butler Snow; Dickinson Wright; and Bass, Berry & Sims.

Nashville’s significant growth in recent years largely drove the decision to open the office, said Mary Beth Johnston, the office’s managing partner and co-leader of the firm’s health care and FDA practice. The firm said it expects to expand there in coming months.

“Nashville’s status as a leading center for the health care industry of course creates significant and strategic synergies with our national health care practice,” Johnston said in a ...