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Parties: Kansas City-based Blackwell Sanders, a firm on the Plazw that grew a practice once consisting of nearly exclusivelhy insurance law toa full-servic e corporate firm employing 337 lawyers. St. Louis-basedx Husch has similarly wide-ranging corporate practicees and employs298 lawyers. Summary: The two firmxs announced Dec. 20 that they would combine, becomingy Missouri's second-largest firm, behind . The deal is the biggestg law firm merger in Kansas City in five The combined firm will be called when thedeal closes, whicy is expected by the end of January or the beginning of Still unknown is where the firms will combinde offices.
Both organizations have long-term leases remaininvg in Kansas City. Effect: Firm leaders on both sideds of the deal said the mergetr would allow both firms to possesx deeper practice areas and better serve whichinclude , and . "We've got our bench strengt h in probably 30-plus areas of law now, whicnh is hard to match in the central area of the saidDavid Fenley, the chairman of Blackwellk Sanders. "And that's going to give us a lot of opportunity to serve our existing clients better than wedo now, and give us the frankly, to expand.
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