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May 01, 2011 |

Visions of Greatness

5 minute read
March 30, 2011 |

How Prominent Law Firm Adorno & Yoss Spiraled to Its Death

After Adorno & Yoss co-founder Henry "Hank" Adorno's Florida bar license was suspended, the firm's partners held an emergency meeting on Halloween and agreed to keep the firm alive, as Yoss LLP. But in early March, the firm announced it would be closing within three weeks. What happened?
13 minute read
February 13, 2006 |

Adorno & Yoss Trumpets Diversity but Loses Practice Groups in the Process

Rapidly boosting its headcount from 150 lawyers to about 270, Florida-based Adorno & Yoss has become the largest minority-owned firm in the United States. But the expansion has brought growing pains, resulting in the defection of at least 16 lawyers and two practice groups so far this year. Some say the firm focuses outward too much, neglecting practice groups and morale while wooing corporate clients. Top managers, meanwhile, say the changes are part of the normal restructuring of a growing firm.
8 minute read
March 31, 2011 |

How Adorno & Yoss spiraled to its end

The Sunday after Adorno Yoss cofounder Henry "Hank" Adorno was suspended by the Florida Supreme Court, the firm flew in outlying partners for an emergency meeting at its Coral Gables, Fla., headquarters to discuss the future of the 24-year-old firm.During the three-and-a-half-hour meeting last Halloween, managing partner George Yoss went around the room asking partners one by one if they wanted the firm to continue or fold.
13 minute read
March 29, 2011 |

Crash and Burn: A National Firm Spirals to Its Death

The Sunday after Adorno & Yoss co-founder Henry "Hank" Adorno was suspended by the Florida Supreme Court, the firm flew in outlying partners for an emergency meeting at its Coral Gables headquarters to discuss the future of the 24-year-old firm.
13 minute read
March 28, 2011 |

How prominent firm Adorno & Yoss spiraled to its death

Once billed as nation's largest minority-owned firm, Adorno & Yoss never recovered after the city of Miami fire fee scandal that led to the suspension of its founder, Hank Adorno, by the Florida Supreme Court.
13 minute read
February 13, 2006 |

Adorno & Yoss Trumpets Diversity but Loses Practice Groups in the Process

Rapidly boosting its headcount from 150 lawyers to about 270, Florida-based Adorno & Yoss has become the largest minority-owned firm in the United States. But the expansion has brought growing pains, resulting in the defection of at least 16 lawyers and two practice groups so far this year. Some say the firm focuses outward too much, neglecting practice groups and morale while wooing corporate clients. Top managers, meanwhile, say the changes are part of the normal restructuring of a growing firm.
8 minute read
June 16, 2008 |

Law firm capitalizes on its diversity

Big law firms have embraced the idea of diversity, but they still are struggling to deliver the goods, even as corporate America is pressuring its outside counsel to use more women and lawyers of color.Henry N. "Hank" Adorno is capitalizing on the sluggish reaction of big law to the growing corporate demand for diversity by transforming his firm, Adorno Yoss, into the largest minority-owned law firm in the nation.
11 minute read
June 16, 2008 |

Law Firm Capitalizes on Its Diversity

Big law firms have embraced the idea of diversity, but they still are struggling to deliver the goods, even as corporate America is pressuring its outside counsel to use more women and lawyers of color. Henry N. "Hank" Adorno is capitalizing on the sluggish reaction of big law to the growing corporate demand for diversity by transforming his firm, Adorno & Yoss in Atlanta, into the largest minority-owned law firm in the nation.
11 minute read

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