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Bar Talk - Haythe Veteran Pulls Up Stakes at Torys in New York

Globe and Mail
April 4, 2007

Eight years after Torys LLP closed its ill-fated merger with New York's Haythe & Curley, only half a dozen of the Manhattan firm's original 60 lawyers remain.  This week, Torys lost another as politically well connected litigator Charles 'Trip' Dorkey resigned to start a litigation team at mid-sized national firm McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP.  Mr. Dorkey is the latest of a number of lawyers to exit Torys' Manhattan office, which has shrunk to about 50 lawyers from 80 two years ago.