Mayer Brown brings back leading real estate lawyer: Brian Aronson rejoins firm to head its property practice.APPARENTLY, yOU can go home again. The Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. office of Mayer Brown Mayer Brown is one of the largest international law firms with £538.5m (approximately US$1b) of 2006 revenue[1]. It was founded in 1881 by Levy Mayer in Chicago. LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol announced last week that Brian Aronson has rejoined the firm as partner. Aronson will head up the firm's real estate practice in Los Angeles, which has been the scene of several departures in recent months. James Tancula, head of the firm's Los Angeles office, couldn't be reached for comment but in a press release he said: "We are pleased Brian has agreed to head up our local real estate group. With an impressive track record representing a large number of major clients, he will play an important role in the further expansion of the practice in both Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, and globally." So far this year, Mayer Brown's Los Angeles real estate practice has been contracting, not expanding. In March, two partners left the firm's local real estate practice to establish a downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or office for Boston-based Goodwin Procter LLP. And in August, two more real estate partners left the firm for the Los Angeles office of Proskauer Rose LLP. Aronson was among of a group of real estate attorneys that left the firm for Holland & Knight LLP in 2005. In a press release, Aronson explained why he was now returning to the firm: "(Mayer Brown's) strong platform and commitment to growth provide me with an extraordinary opportunity to develop a stellar West Coast practice and increase the firm's national presence." |
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