Does Big Law’s Boston Expansion Have Anything to Do with GE?

In our latest Big Law Business podcast episode , we posed the question of whether the shift of General Electric’s headquarters, from Connecticut to Boston, could prompt law firms to beef up their presence in the region.

After all, Sidley Austin, one legal advisor to GE, just announced plans to triple its size in Boston , and Wilson Sonsini similarly announced an opening there. Both releases came within days of GE’s media rollout.

After tracking down several leaders of large law firms and the recently-retired general counsel of GE, Brackett Denniston, our reporting turned up that the big law firm office ...