Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge and Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon announced Monday that they will merge as of October 1 to create a 14-office, 650-lawyer firm known as Edwards Wildman Palmer. The announcement comes a little more than a month after The Am Law Daily reported that the firms had entered advanced merger talks.
Walter Reed, managing partner of Boston-based Edwards Angell, says that his firm was drawn to Wildman because of its presence in the growing Chicago and Los Angeles markets, as well as by what he called the likely synergies between the firms’ clients, practices, and cultures.
