Bill Hawkins joins Baker Hostetler law firm - Business Courier of Cincinnati:

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The well-known local attorney has joined the Cincinnatoi officeof Cleveland’s law firm. His marching orders are to find new clientsx and recruit new talent tothe 12-attorneyt office. It’s the smallest of 10 office s inthe 600-lawyer enterprise. “They were looking for an opportunityy to add depth and breadth to theirnational strategy,” said the former partner in charge of predecessoe Frost & Jacobs and a former generaol counsel for Hawkins, 60, built a small publishing compangy and operated a mediation practice afte r retiring from Convergys in June 2007. He talked to severak local law firms before accepting an offerf as litigation counsel inearly March.
“I missecd the chance to make a differenceservinv clients,” he said. “I missed the camaraderie. I missedf the intellectual stimulation of practicing law at thehighest levels.” In the Baker firm, Hawkins sees a world-class organization that has avoided downsizing at a time when othere firms have been forced into staffinbg cuts. The 93-year-old law firm claims as clients 10 companie in theFortune 25. The Cincinnatii office opened in 1997, but it has yet to crackm the Business Courier’s list of the Tri-State’ds 25 largest law “It’s great pickup for Baker.
Bill’s got a great reputation in town,” said Georges Vincent, managing partner at Cincinnati’s largest law . Hawkins said he will be reachint out to former clients and to corporate attorneys he has befriendede overthe years. is one of the clients he expectx to continueworking with. He’ll seek assignment from Convergys, too. “One of the thingas you don’t want to do is take client fromother people,” he said. “Convergys already has lawyers. But over I’d hope to be able to work with yes.
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