Dinsmore's latest merger opens new West Coast connections for local clients

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Chauncey Curtz, Lexington office managing partner and Natural Resources Group chair for Dinsmore & Shohl

As of Nov. 1, the law firm of Dinsmore & Shohl has merged with Leventhal Law, a litigation-focused firm based in San Diego, California.

The move is the latest in a series of acquisitions that have expanded Dinsmore’s reach to include operations across the country. The expansion has also created new opportunities for the firm to serve the interests of its clients in Lexington, particularly in the growing business sectors of energy, technology, equine and agriculture, according to Chauncey Curtz, managing partner of Dinsmore’s Lexington office.

“Southern California is obviously one of the centers of technological research and development in many areas, including energy and natural resources,” said Curtz, who also serves as Dinsmore’s Natural Resources Group chair. “As the country’s attention is increasingly focused on an ongoing transition in the way in which we produce and utilize our natural resources, having a boots-on-the-ground presence in Southern California will allow us to better assist our clients to keep abreast of developments as they occur, and seize opportunities as they are presented.”

The addition of the San Diego office also expands the reach of Dinsmore’s local equine industry attorneys and creates closer connections with both new and existing California clients, including racehorse trainers and owners based at Del Mar and Santa Anita racetracks, said Laura D’Angelo, Dinsmore’s Equine and Gaming Group chair.

Laura D'Angelo, Equine and Gaming Group chair for Dinsmore & Shohl's Lexington office

“Breeders’ Cup will be at Santa Anita in 2016 and Delmar in 2017, so having a footprint in San Diego will be very useful,” D’Angelo said. “In addition, Southern California is an active center of sport horse owners and trainers as well as world-class sport horse activities, including the Global Champions Show Jumping Tour.”

Founded in 2012 by former White House attorney Joe Leventhal, Leventhal Law counts among its clients Fortune 250 corporations as well as emerging companies.

“California is a highly regulated state and often on the forefront of many legal trends,” Curtz said. “The attorneys from Leventhal Law bring insight into the California legal system and increase our litigation capacity in a key location.”

In addition, the company’s strong contingent of environmental attorneys in Lexington, led by Carolyn Brown, is expected to benefit the merged company’s West Coast clients as they address today’s changing regulatory landscape, Curtz said.

The Leventhal Law merger is Dinsmore’s fourth in recent years. The law firm merged in September with Gifford Krass, an intellectual property boutique firm with Michigan offices in Detroit and Ann Arbor and an office in Mystic, Connecticut. In February, Dinsmore joined with one of West Virginia’s oldest law firms, Huddleston Bolen, establishing a presence in Huntington, West Virginia. These moves followed the firm’s 2014 merger with Peck, Shaffer & Williams, which brought added public finance expertise to the firm, along with offices in Chicago, Illinois and Denver, Colorado.

The Lexington office of Dinsmore, which is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, includes 54 attorneys. In total, the newly merged firm now has 625 attorneys in 21 cities across the nation, including California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Washington, D.C.

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