Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day.
The firm’s fine, I don’t view this as the firm being jilted or left at the altar or anything like that.
— Jon Truster, a partner at recruiting firm Macrae, in comments given to the American Lawyer, concerning where Alston & Bird’s headspace is in the wake of its failed merger talks with Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft. Cadwalader instead decided to combine with Hogan Lovells, for what’s believed to be the largest law firm merger in history. Truster pointed out that Alston had grown its New York headcount to about 200 lawyers, and said that “the right large group of lawyers would be very appealing to Alston and any other firm in New York of that size.”
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