Kelley Drye & Warren LLP is merging with White O’Connor Fink & Brenner LLP, a Los Angeles firm with extensive experience in entertainment industry litigation.
The move will strengthen Kelley Drye’s expertise in several practice areas, including First Amendment, antitrust, and intellectual property. The new office will open as “Kelley Drye / White O’Connor.” In turn, all Kelley Drye clients will have access to some of the most well known trial attorneys on the West Coast. In addition, White O’Connor clients now benefit from the expanded geographic reach Kelley Drye provides.
John M. Callagy, partner and Chair of Kelley Drye was quoted as saying in a press release at the firm’s website: “From shared clients to a common culture to complementary legal expertise, this expansion promises to be seamless and will benefit all of our clients.”
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP is a multidisciplinary law firm founded in 1836. Its attorneys and professionals meet the needs of U.S. and international companies across a wide spectrum of legal specialties.
The attorneys of White O’Connor Fink & Brenner LLP have extensive experience defending and prosecuting cases involving entertainment, First Amendment, insurance, media-related torts, real estate, copyright, trademark, antitrust, class actions and other complicated commercial disputes.