Bingham McCutchen chief operating officer L. Tracee Whitley had never been to Lexington, Kentucky—or anywhere in the Bluegrass State, for that matter—when the firm first began to consider opening a new back-office operation in the city last year.
But as the months of planning wore on and the scheduled April opening of a global services center that will ultimately employ 250 people approached, Whitley realized that overseeing the new operation from Bingham’s Boston headquarters wouldn’t be practical. She needed to make the move south.
