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US: Chicago boutique Freed Kanner opens in Philadelphia concentrating in antitrust

By  |  April 9, 2019

Chicago-based class action boutique Freed Kanner London & Millen has opened an office in the Philadelphia suburbs with the additions of Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check’s previous antitrust co-chair and a former partner from Spector Roseman & Kodroff.

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    Freed Kanner’s new office, located in Conshohocken, technically opened when Jonathan Jagher joined from Spector Roseman about three months ago. But the firm did not officially announce the new location until this week.

    Freed Kanner founding partner Michael Freed said his firm targeted the Philadelphia area for growth in part because it felt it could benefit from a presence in the Northeast.

    But, he added, the move had much less to do with geography than with the chance to bring aboard Jagher and Kimberly Justice, two attorneys with whom Freed Kanner has had long working relationships.

    “It was a wonderful opportunity to get two outstanding lawyers,” Freed said.

    “We concentrate on antitrust because there have been so many opportunities, the internationalization of cartels, the autoparts cases, but we have no concern whatsoever [about branching out] if a great opportunity comes to us,” he said. “We’re able to go there.”

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