K&L Gates has opened its 47th office in Kansas City, where the firm poached a group of longtime lawyers from Husch Blackwell’s renewable energy practice to serve as the first practitioners in the new location. 

The firm’s newest office, 25th in the U.S., launched May 9 following an aggressive year of expansion that saw K&L Gates open in Nashville and Luxembourg in 2021. Other Am Law 100 firms have also looked to Kansas City for growth, including Fox Rothschild, which opened an office there last November.