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office. The loss of the seven-lawyer group leaves Pittsburgh-based Buchanan with only one full-timer partner in Wilmington and four lawyerstotal there, and gives Saul Ewing the largestg Wilmington office of any full-servicr Philadelphia-based firm. The group includea office headWilliam Manning, who serves as outsidde general counsel to the University of Delaware and also representws Verizon Corp. and Dover The litigator was once chief of stafv to formerDelaware Gov. Pete DuPont. The other two partner s are Teresa Currier, who led bankruptcy efforts for Buchanan in and real estate lawyerRichard Forsten.
The additions give Saul Ewing 19 lawyersin Wilmington, where bankruptciee have taken off during the economic A large percentage of companies from arounrd the country file for Chapter 11 protection in Delaware. But becaus Delaware only has abour 2,000 lawyers and has a strong set of indigenous law the Wilmington market has been a toughb one to crackfor outsiders, even neighboring Philadelphia Among Philadelphia firms, Peppee Hamilton and Fox Rothschild have 17 Drinker Biddle & Reathy has 15 and Blank Rome has 13. Saul Ewing said Manningh will serveas co-managing partner of the office with currenr office managing partner and real estate lawyer Wendie Stabler.
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