Firm Watch
Jul. 30, 2002
Firm's Estate Practice Adds Pair
San Jose's 40-lawyer corporate and litigation firm Hopkins & Carley has doubled the size of its estate and tax planning department with the recent acquisition of partners James Quillinan and Filmore Rose. The department has five attorneys and six paralegals.
San Jose's 40-lawyer corporate and litigation firm Hopkins & Carley has doubled the size of its estate and tax planning department with the recent acquisition of partners James Quillinan and Filmore Rose. The department has five attorneys and six paralegals.
Quillinan, 53, joined Hopkins & Carley on July 15. Before that, he practiced with Quillinan & Luce, a four-lawyer firm that recently disbanded with the retirement of partner James Luce. The duo founded the estate and trust planning firm in 1982.
He says he is excited to practice with Hopkins & Carley founder John Hopkins.
"He's been known for years as one of the pre-eminent estate planning lawyers in the area," Quillinan says.
Hopkins calls Quillinan a "great addition" to the firm.
Hopkins & Carley was founded as an estate and tax planning firm in 1968 and since has branched into business and corporate law, litigation and employment law.
"Another senior person can provide continuity [to the estate and tax practice]," Hopkins says. "He's another heavy hitter."
Rose had practiced at San Francisco's Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin. There, he led the firm's estate planning department. Before joining Howard Rice in 1998, he practiced with estate planning boutiques in Santa Fe, N.M. and Washington, D.C.
Rose, 58, says he was drawn to Hopkins & Carley because estate planning was one of the firm's core practices. He says that means that he'll have more resources, such as associates and paralegals, to help him on projects.
By comparison, he says, Howard Rice's estate practice was "very small" with just two partners and no full-time associates.
In addition, he says, Hopkins "wanted to phase back" his own practice and have Rose help him in San Jose.
Rose will continue to live in San Francisco, but he has rented an apartment in San Jose.
Erik Cummins
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