Rose Walker LLP, the litigation law firm, has announced that it will open a new office in Los Angeles. This will be the first office for the firm outside the state of Texas. The new office will be led by partner Michael J. Terhar, with the firm focusing on aviation and aerospace litigtation.
The new office will be located at 2 N. Lake Avenue in Pasadena, California, which used to be occupied by the firm of LaMontagne & Terhar LLP. This firm was co-founded by Terhar but he is leaving in order to take the job with Rose Walker. There are only two lawyers on the staff for the California office of Rose Walker, but there are negotiations ongoing for future hires.
Chris McDowell, a partner with the Dallas firm, said the following:
“We have a lot of clients in aviation and aerospace, and they’ve been asking us to be present in California for a long time … It seemed like the right time and right opportunity to finally do so.”
McDowell also said that the firm’s new office in California might also expand into the practices of intellectual property and commercial litigation. The opening of the firm’s office in California is expected to boost the work done by the firm for the past couple of decades in California.
“Our firm has always worked in California, and we are familiar with the business climate and the courts there. This move gives us a ‘boots-on-the-ground’ component that we didn’t have before, and that’s good for our clients,” Martin Rose, the firm’s founder, said in a statement.
Rose also said that Terhar is the perfect candidate to lead the office in California because of his 30 years of experience in litigation within the state.
“We have known him for his entire legal career and frequently worked together,” Rose said in a statement. “He’s a natural fit for our culture and results-focused practice. I’m thrilled to have him on board.”
Terhar has worked on commercial and private aviation cases, including the 1978 case involving the crash of PSA Flight 182 in a neighborhood in San Diego.
Terhar also has quite a bit of experience representing sports and concert venues in Los Angeles County. Those cases have involved crowd control, security and code violations, personal injury and wrongful death cases that cause injury to stuntmen, cast and crew in Hollywood.
The case history for Terhar is impressive as it includes him defending an aerial stunt coordinator’s role in a helicopter accident during the filming of ‘XXX,’ which was released back in 2002. Terhar also represented John Landis in wrongful death lawsuits related to the filming of ‘Twilight Zone’ back in 1983.
Terhar attended Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, graduating in 1979.
“We grow as our clients’ need dictate. We’re not driven to grow to a certain size by a certain time,” McDowell said.
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