For K&L Gates, the week began with a Crain’s Chicago Business story about the state of the firm’s “shrinking” Chicago office three years after it was established via a merger with Bell Boyd & Lloyd. K&L Gates chairman and global managing partner Peter Kalis told Crain’s via email that despite its reduced size, the Windy City office has seen its revenue increase 13 percent so far this year.
Next came an anonymously sourced law360 story (“Expect More Exits From K&L Gates, Ex-Partners Say“; subscription required) that painted a portrait of a firm in crisis. (Kalis declined to comment to law360.)
