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Media Highlights: Consumer Financial Services Team Announcement
Jan 28 2026
The firm's recent addition of a 36-person Consumer Financial Services team — including 19 attorneys and a dedicated licensing team — generated broad coverage across legal, business, and financial services publications.*
The announcement launched with an exclusive in The American Lawyer, featuring interviews with Chair Merrick Benn and Mark Edelman, leader of the incoming team and head of the firm’s Consumer Financial Services practice. The article also published on Law.com International, New York Law Journal, Daily Report, Corporate Counsel, National Law Journal, Texas Lawyer, and The Recorder, among other ALM outlets.
Coverage in Bloomberg Law, Global Legal Post, Law360, and Reuters included quoted commentary from Benn, Edelman, and Taber Cathcart, Co-Leader of the Financial Services Sector. Law360 also published an in-depth interview with Edelman focused on the team’s practice and future growth at the firm.
Locally, the news was featured in Albany Business Review, Charlotte Business Journal, Crain’s Cleveland Business, Cleveland Business Journal, Greensboro News & Record, The Charlotte Observer, and Winston-Salem Journal.
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