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We’ve got some extremely unlucky information to report out of Florida, the place one of many founding companions of Am Regulation 100 agency Greenberg Traurig lately handed away.
Greater than 50 years in the past, Larry Hoffman, 95, and attorneys Mel Greenberg and Robert Traurig had been impressed over a deli lunch to create a brand new agency, and in 1967, the trio based Greenberg Traurig Hoffman. After serving as founding chairman and CEO, Hoffman determined to take away his surname from the agency’s title. Senior chairman Cesar L. Alvarez, one in every of Hoffman’s mentees, notes within the American Lawyer that it was as a result of Hoffman was “[n]onegotistical with the agency’s greatest curiosity at coronary heart.”
Hoffman, a graduate of the College of Miami Faculty of Regulation, oversaw the agency’s enlargement from Florida to main markets throughout the East Coast, from New York to Washington, D.C. Below his management and because the “architect of the blueprint for development,” Greenberg Traurig — presently ranked at No. 16 on the Am Regulation 100 — turned one of many fastest-growing Biglaw corporations. Due to Hoffman’s imaginative and prescient, the agency has expanded globally, with greater than 2,850 legal professionals unfold throughout 49 places of work on 4 continents.
Right here’s what Greenberg Traurig leaders Brian Duffy, CEO, and Richard A. Rosenbaum, government chairman, needed to say of Hoffman:
“Larry was an unimaginable businessman and an excellent higher accomplice and buddy,” mentioned Brian Duffy, CEO of Greenberg Traurig. “When Larry believed in you, it gave you the boldness to consider in your self. He did so many issues the best manner and all the time for the best causes. His passing is a reminder to the complete GT Household of what we owe to the person and his legacy.”
“With out Larry Hoffman, Greenberg Traurig, and myself personally, wouldn’t have skilled the extraordinary development and success we’ve seen over a few years,” mentioned Richard A. Rosenbaum, government chairman of Greenberg Traurig, in a press release. “He was my second father and with out his imaginative and prescient, sacrifice, unselfishness, knowledge and enterprise savvy, his deep, although quiet, understanding of so many issues related to a rising skilled service group, and his instincts about folks, we might merely not be who we’re at this time.”
Hoffman was the final dwelling founding father of the agency, having been predeceased by Traurig in 2018 and Greenberg in 1994.
We right here at Above the Regulation want to lengthen our condolences to Larry Hoffman’s household, buddies, and colleagues throughout this tough time.
Greenberg Traurig Founder Larry Hoffman Dies at 95 [American Lawyer]
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