Atlanta’s King & Spalding has announced an that it will open an office in Charlotte, NC. The firm has already hired two partners from Kennedy Covington, and plans to build the office to about 50 lawyers in a year and a half. King & Spalding is the third national firm to announce expansion to Charlotte in the past few months; Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal and Dewey Ballantine have already opened offices there. King & Spalding has more than 800 lawyers and is ranked in the AmLaw’s Top 100 firms.
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