Venable Hires Four Partners From McDermott Will & Emery

Four tax and wealth planning lawyers have joined Venable in Los Angeles from the Chicago-based law firm McDermott Will & Emery.

Jonathan C. Lurie, William R. Burford and Andrew D. Copans have already joined the firm as partners, while Jason P. Trenton will join as a partner in early January, Venable said on Friday.

The group also brings three paralegals and three staff members.

Lurie, whose practice specializes in estate planning, was sued alongside McDermott last year by grandchildren (and their father Richard “Dick” Hausman) of the founder of pharmaceutical giant Allergan Inc. The plaintiffs claimed Lurie and McDermott helped a ...