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Article: Hahn Loeser gets a year's head start on succession plan; Increasing number of inquiries into acquiring law firm prompts partners' long-term plan.(News)
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- Crain's Cleveland Business
- Article date:
- November 12, 2007
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Byline: SHAWN A. TURNER
What started as a meeting over whether to remain independent has ended with Cleveland law firm Hahn Loeser + Parks LLP appointing a new managing partner and CEO.
But it will be a little while before Lawrence E. Oscar takes the reins at the firm - say, more than a year.
On Jan. 1, 2009, Mr. Oscar will assume the dual managing partner/ CEO role as he succeeds Stephen J. Knerly Jr., who has headed Hahn Loeser the last 14 years. Mr. Oscar, 51, is a 26-year veteran of the firm who serves on Hahn Loeser's board of directors and is co-chairman of the firm's creditors' rights, reorganization and bankruptcy practice group.
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