Howard & Howard Attorneys expands, opens offices in Chicago and Las Vegas

Howard & Howard Attorneys is a law firm that has been around a while (140 years), so it knows the value of words like diversification and has used it as a key cog to spur growth in 2010.The downtown Royal Oak-based firm has grown its practice in some high-profile new economy-based sectors, such as alternative energy and intellectual property. It has hired about a dozen people over the last year, rounding out its staff to 235 employees, six interns and two independent contractors. In some cases, Howard & Howard Attorneys’ new hires are young people who specialize in those new economy sectors that grew into important roles at the law firm.”There has been a real nice organic growth in our intellectual property practice in terms of interns maturing into lawyers and joining our practice,” says Mark Davis, president and CEO of Howard & Howard Attorneys.The firm specializes primarily in business-to-business and business owner law in a number of industries ranging from gaming to automotive to medical devices. It has set up offices in Ann Arbor, Chicago, Peoria, Ill., and Las Vegas. This has also allowed the firm to grow its revenue by 20 percent in 2010, 15 percent above its goal. Davis hopes to hit 10 percent revenue growth and a few more hires in 2011.Source: Mark Davis, president and CEO of Howard & Howard AttorneysWriter: Jon ZemkeRead more about Metro Detroit’s growing entrepreneurial ecosystem at SEMichiganStartup.com.