SAN FRANCISCO — The pressure is on for Howrey partners to make up their minds about where to go. In a partnership meeting held Tuesday, Chairman Robert Ruyak and Winston & Strawn Managing Partner Thomas Fitzgerald encouraged those Howrey partners with offers from Winston to accept them as soon as possible, current and former Howrey lawyers said today.

Winston handed out individual offers to about three-quarters of Howrey’s partners over the weekend, asking for a response within three weeks.