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Arter & Hadden Elects New Managing Partner; Mark Solomon selected to lead 450-lawyer firm.


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DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 24, 2000

The national law firm of Arter & Hadden, L.L.P., has elected a new managing partner for the first time in ten years. Mark Solomon, who leads the firm's Dallas office, has been named national managing partner.

Mr. Solomon, 40, becomes one of the country's youngest managing partners of a national law firm. He has served as managing partner of Arter & Hadden's Dallas office since 1997.

"I am very honored hon·or  
n.
1. High respect, as that shown for special merit; esteem: the honor shown to a Nobel laureate.

2.
a. Good name; reputation.

b.
 that my friends, my partners, have asked me to lead this firm," Mr. Solomon says. "I'm looking forward to working with everyone here to make the coming years the best in Arter & Hadden's long history."

Mr. Solomon takes over the position previously held by Stephen Ellis of the firm's Cleveland office. Mr. Ellis will remain a member of Arter & Hadden's Executive Committee, and has been named Chairman of the firm's Strategic Planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people.  Committee. Dan Bailey, a partner in Arter & Hadden's Columbus, Ohio Columbus is the capital and the largest city of the American state of Ohio. Named for explorer Christopher Columbus, the city was founded in 1812 at the confluence of the Scioto and Olentangy rivers, and assumed the functions of state capital in 1816. , office, has been named Chairman of the firm's Executive Committee.

"Ten years is a long time as managing partner," Mr. Ellis says. "I enjoyed the position and I am looking forward to helping Mark whenever he needs me. But I'm also excited about being able to practice more law, which is why I got into this game in the first place."

Mr. Solomon will continue to work in Dallas although he plans to travel regularly to all the firm's offices.

Founded in 1843, Arter & Hadden is one of the nation's oldest and largest law firms This list of the world's largest law firms by revenue is taken from The Lawyer and The American Lawyer and is ordered by 2006 revenue:[1]
  1. Clifford Chance, £1,030.2m – International law firm (headquartered in the UK);
  2. Linklaters, £935.
 with 13 offices in the continental United States United States territory, including the adjacent territorial waters, located within North America between Canada and Mexico. Also called CONUS. , as well as a European affiliate in Geneva Geneva, canton and city, Switzerland
Geneva (jənē`və), Fr. Genève, canton (1990 pop. 373,019), 109 sq mi (282 sq km), SW Switzerland, surrounding the southwest tip of the Lake of Geneva.
, Switzerland. The firm's attorneys practice in all areas of litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute.

When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation.
 and business law.

If you would like more information about the changes at Arter & Hadden, please contact Mark Solomon direct at 214/761-2100, Janet O'Hara at 216/696-1100, or Bruce Vincent at 214/559-4630 or pager 888/361-8452.
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