Stroock Adds to Firms Changing Leadership

Stroock & Stroock & Lavan announced on Tuesday that its longtime co-managing partner Stuart Coleman is stepping down to be replaced by Jeffrey Keitelman, who joined the firm last year.

Alan Klinger, co-chair of the litigation practice, will continue on as the other co-managing partner, a position he’s held since 2007.

In an interview Keitelman cast himself as a change agent: “With Alan comes continuity, with me comes a fresh look. And I think combined we’re loaded for bear.”

It adds to the growing list of law firms that have picked the summer of 2016 as the appropriate time to change ...