(from left) Tom Wolf, Kenneth Stout, Joseph Rainsbury have joined O’Hagan Meyer in Richmond
A team of local lawyers has swapped one downtown law firm for another, in a move that reunites the leader of the group with some of his former LeClairRyan colleagues.
Longtime commercial and construction litigation attorney Tom Wolf, along with Joseph Rainsbury and Kenneth Stout, left Miles & Stockbridge for O’Hagan Meyer last week.
Their first day at O’Hagan Meyer was April 17.
The move ends the group’s nearly four-year run at Miles & Stockbridge, a Baltimore-based firm that expanded into Richmond in 2019 when they and others came over from the now-defunct LeClairRyan.
Among Wolf’s new colleagues at O’Hagan Meyer is namesake Charlie Meyer, who was with LeClairRyan for 18 years before he and a group made the leap in 2016 to join fellow named partner Kevin O’Hagan.
“That was one of the advantages of coming over here is that there are guys I worked with for years at LeClairRyan and have great admiration for like Charlie Meyer, Charles Sims, Robert Yates and others,” Wolf said last week.
Wolf, Stout and Rainsbury now work out of O’Hagan’s downtown Richmond office at 411 E. Franklin St. It’s one of 18 O’Hagan offices nationwide and the new additions come at a time of rapid growth for the firm.
In addition to recruiting Wolf and his group, Charlie Meyer said the firm recently opened a Norfolk office and has grown at an especially rapid clip in California, Pennsylvania and Delaware.
Charlier Meyer
“We are always looking for talent. Tom brings this fantastic construction and commercial litigation practice which complements what we’re doing on the architecture and engineering front,” Meyer said.
O’Hagan was one of the firms that had tried to recruit Wolf and his group back in 2019 when they were looking to leave LeClair. O’Hagan at the time was smaller compared to Miles & Stockbridge but has since caught up in terms of attorney headcount.
Miles & Stockbridge had about 230 attorneys firm-wide when it first expanded into Richmond in 2019. Today it lists around 175 on its website. O’Hagan Meyer has about doubled over that time, listing around 160 attorneys on its site as of last week.
The departure of Wolf, Rainsbury and Stout leaves Miles & Stockbridge with two lawyers now running its Richmond office in Truist Place at 919 E. Main St.
But Nancy Greene, chairman, president and CEO of Miles & Stockbridge, said the firm has plans to turn the tide.
The firm is finalizing a lease to move its local office from Truist Place to Riverfront Plaza’s West Tower, where it will more than double its local footprint with an 11,000-square-foot ninth floor office.
Nancy Greene
Greene said the Richmond office is led by John Badman IV and Stephen Ramaley, who are tasked with growing the firm’s local ranks and using the new Riverfront Plaza space as a sweetener for recruiting.
“We took a lot more space than we have now with the intent of significantly growing,” Greene said. “The plan is now to hit the ground running to fill up those offices.”
Badman came over from McGuireWoods last year and Ramaley had been in the firm’s Northern Virginia office but recently moved to Richmond. Greene said the firm is in discussions with several attorneys who are considering a move to Miles & Stockbridge but she couldn’t discuss specifics.
“We really want to build an office for the future and try to target associates that are getting close to making partner and young lateral partners,” she said. “To recruit up-and-comers and associates you really need to have kind of sexier space.”
Miles & Stockbridge is represented in its office lease by Ben Bruni and Tucker Dowdy of Commonwealth Commercial. They’re also listing the firm’s Truist Center space.
Greene said the firm hopes to recruit 10 attorneys in Richmond over the next year or so and continue growing from there.
(from left) Tom Wolf, Kenneth Stout, Joseph Rainsbury have joined O’Hagan Meyer in Richmond
A team of local lawyers has swapped one downtown law firm for another, in a move that reunites the leader of the group with some of his former LeClairRyan colleagues.
Longtime commercial and construction litigation attorney Tom Wolf, along with Joseph Rainsbury and Kenneth Stout, left Miles & Stockbridge for O’Hagan Meyer last week.
Their first day at O’Hagan Meyer was April 17.
The move ends the group’s nearly four-year run at Miles & Stockbridge, a Baltimore-based firm that expanded into Richmond in 2019 when they and others came over from the now-defunct LeClairRyan.
Among Wolf’s new colleagues at O’Hagan Meyer is namesake Charlie Meyer, who was with LeClairRyan for 18 years before he and a group made the leap in 2016 to join fellow named partner Kevin O’Hagan.
“That was one of the advantages of coming over here is that there are guys I worked with for years at LeClairRyan and have great admiration for like Charlie Meyer, Charles Sims, Robert Yates and others,” Wolf said last week.
Wolf, Stout and Rainsbury now work out of O’Hagan’s downtown Richmond office at 411 E. Franklin St. It’s one of 18 O’Hagan offices nationwide and the new additions come at a time of rapid growth for the firm.
In addition to recruiting Wolf and his group, Charlie Meyer said the firm recently opened a Norfolk office and has grown at an especially rapid clip in California, Pennsylvania and Delaware.
Charlier Meyer
“We are always looking for talent. Tom brings this fantastic construction and commercial litigation practice which complements what we’re doing on the architecture and engineering front,” Meyer said.
O’Hagan was one of the firms that had tried to recruit Wolf and his group back in 2019 when they were looking to leave LeClair. O’Hagan at the time was smaller compared to Miles & Stockbridge but has since caught up in terms of attorney headcount.
Miles & Stockbridge had about 230 attorneys firm-wide when it first expanded into Richmond in 2019. Today it lists around 175 on its website. O’Hagan Meyer has about doubled over that time, listing around 160 attorneys on its site as of last week.
The departure of Wolf, Rainsbury and Stout leaves Miles & Stockbridge with two lawyers now running its Richmond office in Truist Place at 919 E. Main St.
But Nancy Greene, chairman, president and CEO of Miles & Stockbridge, said the firm has plans to turn the tide.
The firm is finalizing a lease to move its local office from Truist Place to Riverfront Plaza’s West Tower, where it will more than double its local footprint with an 11,000-square-foot ninth floor office.
Nancy Greene
Greene said the Richmond office is led by John Badman IV and Stephen Ramaley, who are tasked with growing the firm’s local ranks and using the new Riverfront Plaza space as a sweetener for recruiting.
“We took a lot more space than we have now with the intent of significantly growing,” Greene said. “The plan is now to hit the ground running to fill up those offices.”
Badman came over from McGuireWoods last year and Ramaley had been in the firm’s Northern Virginia office but recently moved to Richmond. Greene said the firm is in discussions with several attorneys who are considering a move to Miles & Stockbridge but she couldn’t discuss specifics.
“We really want to build an office for the future and try to target associates that are getting close to making partner and young lateral partners,” she said. “To recruit up-and-comers and associates you really need to have kind of sexier space.”
Miles & Stockbridge is represented in its office lease by Ben Bruni and Tucker Dowdy of Commonwealth Commercial. They’re also listing the firm’s Truist Center space.
Greene said the firm hopes to recruit 10 attorneys in Richmond over the next year or so and continue growing from there.
One of the only good things about AI is hopefully AI reduces the number of lawyers needed in the future.
Go ahead and use AI to help you with a legal problem and let us all know how that goes…
but maybe AI can replace the folks who comments on news articles??