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Posted by: Kate Prince on Jan 26, 2021

Major worldwide law firm K&L Gates is opening a Nashville location that will be staffed by a team of former Butler Snow attorneys, the Nashville Post reports. The firm, which has dozens of offices in five continents and more than 1,800 lawyers, has added Butler Snow attorneys Erin Palmer Polly, Joe Wellborn, Charlie Malone, Bob Walker, Lauren Patten, Beau Creson and Jason Callen. The group of attorneys come from Butler Snow’s commercial litigation group, where they frequently represented locally based private prison operator CoreCivic in litigation. They had all joined Butler Snow in 2015 when the firm brought on 13 attorneys from Walker Tipps & Malone. K&L Gates representatives did not say if the firm plans to add more attorneys locally. The new office will be located at the 222 Second Avenue building.