{"id":148253,"date":"2026-04-08T05:59:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/08\/spencer-fane-to-merge-with-southwest-law-firm-as-part-of-broader-talent-strategy\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T05:59:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:59:59","slug":"spencer-fane-to-merge-with-southwest-law-firm-as-part-of-broader-talent-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/08\/spencer-fane-to-merge-with-southwest-law-firm-as-part-of-broader-talent-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Spencer Fane to Merge With Southwest Law Firm, As Part of Broader Talent Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pat Whalen said this merger, and the combinations his firm has done previously, are a result of what’s going on across the industry: clients and talent looking for larger firms that can handle a higher volume of increasingly complex work across more locations.<\/p>\n

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Pat Whalen said this merger, and the combinations his firm has done previously, are a result of what’s going on across the industry: clients and talent looking for larger firms that can handle a higher volume of increasingly complex work across more locations.<\/p>\n

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Pat Whalen said this merger, and the combinations his firm has done previously, are a result of what’s going on across the industry: clients and talent looking for larger firms that can handle a higher volume of increasingly complex work across more locations. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pat Whalen said this merger, and the combinations his firm has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":148254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/legal-news-3asbyf.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}