Katten Muchin Rosenman opened its Dallas office 13 months ago with seven lawyers, including corporate transactional heavy weight Mark Solomon.
Today, the Chicago-based firm boasts three-dozen attorneys in Dallas and a brand-new long-term lease agreement with Trammel Crow for two floors at the PwC Tower at Park District in Uptown Dallas – a move that will give the firm space to double in size in the future.
Trammel Crow officials are expected to announce Wednesday that Katten has leased the previously unoccupied 10th and 11th floors of PwC Tower at 2121 North Pearl Street across the street from Klyde Warren Park. Katten lawyers hope to begin occupying their new space this fall.
“We are in an environment where talent acquisition and retention is so important,” says Solomon, who is the firm’s office managing partner. “It is important for us to provide an environment where people want to work and this is premier office space.”
Katten opened its Dallas practice with six corporate transactional lawyers and one commercial litigator from the firm then known as Andrews Kurth Kenyon. It now has multiple lawyers in healthcare, real estate, commercial litigation and white-collar defense. The firm has subleased space in the Comerica Tower in downtown Dallas.
“We are at 36 lawyers and stay tuned,” Solomon says. “We hope to announce three or four more in the next few weeks. We’ve been somewhat lucky in the growth we’ve experienced and the quality of people we’ve been able to bring aboard.”
Solomon says the 56,350 square feet Katten is leasing will “comfortably fit about 75 attorneys.” Katten also has 10 lawyers in Houston and three in Austin.
Winston & Strawn and Barnes & Thornburg also call the PwC Tower home.