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Colleen Laduzinski:

We opened in Boston in 2011 and we're neither an old line firm nor a new entrant. I like to think that our Boston office has centers of excellence. We're compact in size. What we really like to showcase is the strength we have across a variety of different practice areas. So for example, one center of excellence is our deep bench of litigators.

Andrew Lelling:

You have a set of partners who are capable of handling litigation in many different sectors; in financial markets, products liability, healthcare, torts. We have partners with deep experience in all of these areas and also on the procedural side. So class action work is something where we have a lot of depth, injunctions, other types of emergency proceedings, regulatory enforcement, justice department enforcement, criminal cases. We have all of that represented.

Colleen Laduzinski:

Relatedly, one center of excellence is our cybersecurity and privacy practice. This includes data protection and privacy, technology innovation, cyber breach response, and importantly, litigation following cyber breaches, including class actions and related third-party lawsuits. We do this work across the financial services sector, healthcare industry, and for our corporate clients and beyond. In addition, another center of excellence is our tax practice. We are well known for our structuring prowess and our deal capabilities in the tax space, as well as tax controversy.

Chris Morrison:

Boston's the greatest city in the world, and it seems like everybody wants to come there. They come for college and they don't leave. We get a lot of great lawyers who come to Boston just for law school from California or from all over the country and say, "You know what? Despite the cold winters, we really like it here in Boston," and they stay there. And our clients find the same thing; engineers, doctors all come to Boston, sometimes just for school and sometimes they stay for the rest of their lives. And so that really lends itself to having a tremendous pool of clients because clients want to go where the talent is.

Colleen Laduzinski:

So another center of excellence is our financial markets practice. We cover the waterfront from transactions to litigation over financial products and for financial institutions. We also have financial institution regulatory capabilities. And when you have finance lawyers and tax lawyers and restructuring lawyers and litigators from multiple jurisdictions, and we're all working together knowing what we each need to do on any transaction, any matter, and we're doing this with the values and the principles and the collegiality and culture of the firm permeating everything that we do, we are able to operate at the highest levels of the profession, and it's like a well-tuned orchestra coming together.

Andrew Lelling:

I've had several clients note to me that when they come to the firm with a problem, and instead of me saying, "Well, I will try to handle that," instead, I say, "I know a partner in Jones Day who's very good at that. Let me find you that person best suited to your needs." In most firms, there's more of a competitive atmosphere among the partnership. We do not have that. The bottom line goal that we have is to find the person who is best positioned to meet the client's needs in that moment and get them in front of the client.

Colleen Laduzinski:

And of course, no conversation about Boston would be complete without talking about life sciences. So from an intellectual property perspective, we have life sciences covered through patent prosecution, portfolio management and diligence, IP transactions, and IP litigation.

Chris Morrison:

And of course, the life science community in Boston is really the lifeblood of the city. It continues to grow. It's expanded from Cambridge all the way over to the Seaport, and now it really envelops that new office that we're moving into.

Colleen Laduzinski:

With our new office space in South Station Tower, which is a brand new skyscraper over South Station, we will have 360-degree unobstructed views of all of Boston from the 24th floor. We're very excited to be pioneers in the building and to be the first tenants to sign and the first tenants to move in.

Chris Morrison:

The train station itself is historic. To see the construction that's gone on above that is just remarkable to see, to see that building rise up. And to know now that we're going to be part of that iconic space is really exciting.

Andrew Lelling:

We're all on one floor. Our offices are all next to each other around the perimeter of the building. Everyone has a great view, and I think it's great that the firm agreed to invest further in our Boston presence.