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After Absorbing Law Firms, Real Work Begins
National law firms that absorbed midsize Chicago firms last year are remolding them, taking in new partners and dispatching others as they build certain practice areas. For the most part, few firms reported departing attorneys. But a key defection was former Gardner Carton Chairman Harold Kaplan, who left acquiring firm Drinker Biddle for Foley & Lardner. "They've got lots of work to do," Kaplan says. "Getting people onto the same page and getting systems onto the same page is always a lot of effort."