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By Teri Zucker
January 01, 2004

Piper Merger Means Larger Presence

Piper Rudnick started the New Year by merging with San Francisco's Steinhart and Falconer, a 100-year-old firm that comprised 32 attorneys. The combined firm will operate under Piper Rudnick's name. Although Steinhart was doing well financially, as a small, local firm, it was feeling pressure from national firms' geographic and financial energy. Steinhart's partners concentrate on litigation, real estate and media law; LucasFilm, PricewaterhouseCoopers, BP Arco Co. and the San Francisco Chronicle are among the firm's clients.

“One of the considerations was balancing out this sort of sense of responsibility as a head of a 100-year-old firm,” says Steinhart partner Robb Scott, “and, on the other hand, making sure the opportunities are going to be there for the people who were coming up behind us.”

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