LeClairRyan Adds Seven Litigators in Boston

LeClairRyan announced Thursday it added seven attorneys to its Boston office, who join from Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough.

Partners James Carroll and Gillian Woolf are leading the group of general commercial litigators, which also includes junior partner, Benjamin Carroll, counsel Marc Finkel, three associates and six professional staff members.

In an interview, James Carroll said his team joined LeClairRyan because it is growing in Boston whereas Nelson Mullins had suffered a series of departures that made him unsure about his future there. Carroll said his team had joined Nelson Mullins in 2012, and recently decided the firm didn’t have enough of a litigation ...