New Orleans-based legislation agency expands in Florida, combines with Pensacola’s oldest legislation agency
Two of the Southeast’s oldest legislation corporations alongside the Gulf Coast have mixed.
Phelps, based in 1853 and now with greater than 425 attorneys throughout seven southern states and London, has expanded its Florida presence by combining with Beggs & Lane, the oldest legislation agency in Pensacola, established in 1883. The merger is efficient Might 1, 2025.
Ranked among the many AmLaw 200, Phelps has workplaces in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and London. Regionally, Phelps has workplaces in Baton Rouge and New Orleans, with greater than 175 attorneys and advisors throughout the state.
Beggs & Lane has 21 attorneys who will be part of Phelps as the mix provides Phelps purchasers a connection throughout the Florida Panhandle and bridges the agency’s current Gulf Coast workplaces.
“Beggs & Lane is a crew of energetic and bold legal professionals who’ve earned a long-standing popularity of belief for fixing consumer issues – this all suits actually properly along with our tradition, consumer service and strategic development method,” mentioned Marshall Redmon, Phelps Managing Companion. “Pensacola has all the time appealed to us as a strategic location that gives a significant connection throughout the Gulf Crescent from Houston to Tampa. We’re delighted to affix forces with one of the vital well-respected corporations within the state.”
Beggs & Lane makes a speciality of employment, well being care, vitality, actual property, enterprise, tax, trusts and estates, white collar protection, and mental property.
“It turned clear over the previous 9 months in our talks collectively that Phelps shared our satisfaction in sustaining robust long-term consumer relationships and working profitable and environment friendly companies,” mentioned Beggs & Lane Managing Companion Invoice Mitchem. “Phelps’ tradition suits ours, and the agency’s service choices properly complement our capabilities to supply purchasers a broader platform and expanded checklist of follow areas.”