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6:41 a.m. Sept. 27-Lange Simpson Robinson & Somerville LLP, one of Birmingham's oldest and largest law firms, soon will be part of something even bigger.
Effective Jan. 1, the 83-year-old firm and its more than 50 attorneys will become part of New Orleans-based Adams and Reese LLP, creating a seven-office, regional practice with more lawyers in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi than any other.
The combined firm will employ nearly 300 attorneys in Birmingham, Mobile-where Adams and Reese already has a 21-lawyer practiceNew Orleans, Baton Rouge, La., Jackson, Miss., Houston and Washington, D.C. It will do business in Alabama as Adams and Reese/Lange Simpson.
Lange Simpson managing...