Bloomberg Law
July 10, 2017, 1:07 PM UTC

Roberta Kaplan Leaves Paul Weiss To Launch Her Own Firm

Stephanie Russell-Kraft

Roberta Kaplan, the litigator made famous for her work overturning the Defense of Marriage Act inUnited States v. Windsor , has left Paul Weiss after 25 years to form her own commercial litigation boutique.

Her new firm, Kaplan and Company LLP, currently includes four lawyers, but will double in size when it moves into its new Empire State Building office at the beginning of August, Kaplan told Big Law Business. By September, she hopes to have between 12 and 15 lawyers total.

Until then, Kaplan and her new hires are occupying a temporary space while they launch the firm. ...

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