Daily News | Blank Rome, under a new chairman, credits deep Philly roots as it builds a national future
Under David F. Girard-diCarlo, who joined the board of PNC [in 1995 when it absorbed a pair of Philly-area banks], we transitioned the financial institutions practice into a national practice, one of our core practices. [PNC, based in Pittsburgh, is now the fifth-largest U.S. bank.]
As a firm that’s growing nationally, our number-one growth place is in New York City, and New York will soon, probably, be our largest office. We have 343 partners as of today and 664 in all. About 200 of those lawyers are in Philadelphia, maybe 175 are already in New York. Back then we didn’t set our hourly rates. The Philadelphia Bar Association set a schedule, and the firm adhered to that. The profession has changed: We now increase rates every year. It’s one of the drivers of our business — to figure out the economic model.My father was a banker and businessman in York. He owned a shop downtown, Palmer’s on the Square. I went to Penn Law. I graduated in 1989, got a federal clerkship, and came back to Blank Rome in 1990. Our revenues were less than $50 million.
Our biggest mergers were Tenzer Greenblatt, 80 lawyers in New York in 2000, and 100 lawyers from the Dickstein Shapiro firm in Washington, D.C., in 2016. It was a lot easier when we were smaller, and everyone was in the office five days a week. Now we have firm-wide town halls every month. ... We just got back to having a retreat — in Miami at the Intercontinental Hotel in late October. The energy of people!
I spent 18 years as the chair of the pro bono committee for Blank Rome. We were one of the first firms to have a full-time pro bono director in 2002. In 2014, we required every attorney to contribute at least 25 hours. Two years ago for our 75th anniversary, we suggested 75 hours.
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