At its height in 2005, Swidler Berlin employed some 300 attorneys with offices on D.C. K Street lobbying corridor and in New York City's iconic Chrysler Building.
[1] The next year, Philadelphia-based Dechert made a mass raid on Swidler Berlin's DC and New York offices, hiring 57 attorneys from both the firm's corporate and litigation departments.
This included many legacy Shereff Friedman attorneys and was widely seen as a blow to the firm's long-term prospects.
Now-defunct San Francisco firm Heller Ehrman inherited much of the insurance team at that time because of conflict of interest issues.
The association with the Harbour Group was discontinued although Bingham McCutchen continues to have a strong political, election law and lobbying practice.