After 111 years, Florida’s Carlton Fields made its first significant foray outside the Southeast on Monday with the announcement that it had opened a Manhattan office with six lawyers from local boutique Rosner & Napierala.
The addition of Rosner & Napierala’s entire legal team, as well as the firm’s two staff members, gives Carlton Fields an instant presence in New York, a city that firm president and CEO Gary Sasso says has been under consideration for his entire six-year run atop the firm’s leadership structure. But Sasso says the decision to hire the six-lawyer group, which is led by new shareholders Brian Rosner and Natalie Napierala, was not solely based on a desire to quickly establish a reputation in the city.
