Editor’s Note: On April 18, after this article went to press for The American Lawyer, Baker & Hostetler filed its most recent fee application, seeking $43 million for the four-month period ending Jan. 31.
In the summer of 2008, Baker & Hostetler made a lateral partner hire that didn’t attract much attention. The firm’s intellectual property group added a 65-year-old partner from Troutman Sanders who had spent most of his career at a regional New Jersey firm. The unheralded recruit hardly seemed like the kind of hire who would make a huge difference to the Cleveland-based firm.
