SORINROYERCOOPER continues momentum and adds to litigation & corporate departments
Growing Client Base Spurs Firm to Continue To Hire Additional Lawyers While Profession Contracts
NEW YORK, NY, EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ, & KING OF PRUSSIA, PA, July 20, 2010/PRWeb – SorinRoyerCooper, a new and expanding law firm serving the emerging growth and middle market sectors, recently announced the expansion of its litigation and corporate departments with the addition of two new Associates to its team: Alan Gruber, resident in the New York office, and Jonathan Hobart (Jobey) Hollinger, resident in the King of Prussia office. The new firm was founded in November 2009 specifically to address the needs of early stage, emerging growth, and middle market enterprises and the investors who support them after concluding that such needs are largely incompatible with the high cost infrastructure, service delivery models, and fee schedules generally associated with today’s traditional law firms.
Alan Gruber brings substantial litigation experience developed at both Shearman & Sterling LLP and Dreier LLP. While at Shearman & Sterling, Alan’s work encompassed all aspects of motion practice, discovery, and trial, as well as oral argument at the trial and appellate levels, in general commercial litigation, antitrust, securities, and ERISA litigation. At Dreier LLP, he also drafted pleadings, counseled clients, negotiated and drafted settlement agreements, and managed all aspects of discovery, including depositions and the supervision of junior attorneys. His practice expanded to include a broad range of complex litigation in federal and state courts, arbitrations and mediations.
Alan attended The George Washington University, receiving a B.A., cum laude, in International Affairs, in May 2000, earning a double concentration in International Economics and International Politics. Following college, he attended the Tulane University School of Law. While at Tulane, Alan distinguished himself by serving as the Senior Notes and Comments Editor of the Tulane Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property and by being awarded the Best Case Note Award for his article entitled “Interpretation of ‘Revision’ Under the Copyright Act Spells Trouble for Publishers: Greenberg v. National Geographic Society.” He is a member of the Bars of the States of New York and New Jersey and is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the District of New Jersey. He also is admitted to practice before the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Joshua H. Epstein, Managing Partner of SorinRoyerCooper’s New York office and Chair of Litigation, noted that, “Our market position and litigation offerings are greatly enhanced with the addition of Alan Gruber to our litigation practice. He brings a deep focus on complex litigation in federal and state courts, arbitrations and mediations. Our Counsel Michael Roth and I worked with Alan at a prior firm and know him to be an excellent litigator, with a deep client service orientation and strong work ethic. His addition will be extremely well received by our clients and prospective clients.”
Jonathan Hobart (Jobey) Hollinger is an Associate of SorinRoyerCooper where he concentrates his practice in the areas of general corporate, transactional and securities law matters. Jobey handles diverse matters for companies, with particular emphasis on early stage, emerging growth, and middle-market sector enterprises. He began his legal career as a business and finance associate in the Philadelphia office of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. While there, he represented numerous early stage and emerging growth technology and life sciences clients in mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, equity and debt financings and a myriad of other corporate and commercial matters. He also gained a broad range of experience in private entity formation, corporate governance and SEC disclosure requirements and filings.
Prior to attending law school, Jobey taught English to students in France and served as a research assistant at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC. He then pursued his legal education, earning his J.D. at The University of California, Davis, School of Law where he was Articles Editor, UC Davis Law Review, and Member, Journal of International Law and Policy. He received his B.A., English and American Literature, cum laude, Harvard University in 1999 and was a Harvard-Radcliffe Scholar and Stone Scholar for Academics and Athletics (Men's Varsity Soccer Team). He is a member of the Bar of Pennsylvania.
Referring to Jobey, John Royer, Co-Founding and Co-Managing Partner, stated “The addition of Jobey Hollinger increases further the breadth of our business and corporate practice as we serve an increasing number of the region’s early stage, emerging growth, and middle market enterprises and the investors who support them. We look forward to applying Jobey’s substantive skills and client and business pragmatic approach to our clients’ needs. His addition will fuel further growth of our firm and continue to enhance the client experience.”
SorinRoyerCooper continues its rapid expansion in the face of a tough economy where the legal profession has lost in excess of 22,000 jobs over the last twelve months, according to a recent report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
ABOUT SorinRoyerCooper
SorinRoyerCooper, LLC is a new law firm embracing and fostering a paradigm shift for 21st century business realities. The firm combines a commitment to the highest-quality lawyering with a businessperson’s practical, results-oriented sensibility to meet the needs of the emerging growth and middle-market sectors, including technology, software, communications, marketing communications, internet, alternative energy, nanotechnology, and biotechnology, medical devices and other life sciences enterprises, as well as the financial institutions (including hedge funds), investors, directors, and executives who support and lead them. SorinRoyerCooper offers creative and sophisticated solutions and accessible, responsive service by experienced lawyers, for highly competitive fees that are up to 50% less than those charged by its primary competitors – ensuring a compelling value proposition. The firm, founded by three veterans of major law firms, one of whom was the former managing partner of Princeton and New York offices of a national law firm and a corporate and securities vice chair, and the others of whom were former general counsels of fast-growing private and public tech companies, now features locations in King of Prussia, PA, East Brunswick, NJ, and New York, NY.