Blank Rome to Shuffle Leaders in 2019

Blank Rome LLP’s chair and managing partner will hand over day-to-day duties to the firm’s top litigator under a leadership transition plan, the firm announced today.

Grant S. Palmer, currently chair of the firm’s litigation department, will become the firm’s sixth managing partner Jan. 1, 2019. Current Chairman and Managing Partner Alan J. Hoffman will continue on as chairman until 2020.

The change is a result of a “strategic succession plan” the partners and firm leadership developed throughout 2017, Hoffman said. As the firm continues to grow by adding new offices, attorneys, and expanding into new practice areas, it became ...