Wendel & Rosen, Black & Dean LLP

What Wendel & Rosen, Black & Dean LLP does

Fennemore Craig, P.C., doing business as Fennemore, is a full-service U.S. business law firm with a 140-year operating history founded in 1885. It provides legal counsel to business and commercial clients across practice areas including corporate transactions, litigation, labor and employment, and construction law. The firm is structured as a privately held professional corporation with no disclosed external equity, venture, or institutional ownership, consistent with the traditional law-firm partnership model. Note on conflicting inputs: the request's firmographics header identifies the subject as "Wendel & Rosen, Black & Dean LLP," founded 1909 in Oakland with 51–100 employees, while the detailed extracted material consistently describes Fennemore Craig, P.C., headquartered in Phoenix; the detailed material is the primary basis for the analysis below.

The firm has executed a rapid expansion program, particularly in 2024, combining with Galvanize Law for construction-law depth, merging with Schmoyer Reinhard LLP for Texas entry, absorbing 15 attorneys and professionals from Reynolds Law, LLP for Northern California, opening new offices in Boise and Coeur d'Alene (Idaho), and extending its Fennemore Forward flexible-work model to add a first Florida presence plus Philadelphia and San Francisco offices — collectively producing a coast-to-coast footprint. In 2024 it also unveiled DOT (Dynamic Optimization Technology), a firm-wide AI assistant positioned as a productivity layer across legal work and client service.

Its revenue model is traditional professional-services billing: legal services quoted and billed by matter, with multi-year engagements implied by complex ongoing matters. Go-to-market is enterprise field sales through attorneys and practice groups, with no publicly disclosed pricing. Marketing relies on a content-marketing hub (Insights), PR/media, and a recruitment-marketing engine targeting attorneys, staff, and summer associates. The firm reports CCPA/CPRA and GDPR compliance frameworks via OneTrust and does not publish revenue, headcount reconciliation across offices, or segment-level financial detail.

Name

Wendel & Rosen, Black & Dean LLP

Legal name

Fennemore Craig, P.C.

Website

http://www.wendel.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1909

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Fennemore Craig, P.C. (DBA Fennemore) is a U.S. business law firm with 140 years of history providing corporate, litigation, labor and employment, and construction-law counsel to business and commercial clients across a coast-to-coast multi-state footprint.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Business Legal Services

NAICS

Offices of Lawyers (541110)

SIC

Services-Legal Services (8111)

akta.pro primary industry

Labor Relations & Employment Practice Advisory (BPAHAGAK)

akta.pro secondary industry

Legal Practice Management & Case Management (BPAEAPAC)

Keywords

• Business legal services
• Litigation counsel
• Labor employment law
• Construction law services
• Corporate legal counsel

Headquarters

HQ city

Oakland

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices7 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Legal Services: Traditional law firm revenue from legal services including litigation, labor and employment, construction law, and other practice areas. Services provided to business clients across multiple states.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

The firm provides full-service business legal counsel to commercial clients across practice areas including litigation, labor and employment, construction law, and corporate/business transactions. It pairs these practice areas with a firm-wide AI assistant (DOT) and a flexible work model (Fennemore Forward) and is expanding coast-to-coast through combinations and lateral hires.

Product overview

Fennemore is a full-service law firm offering legal services across multiple practice areas including corporate, litigation, labor and employment, and construction law. The firm operates as a unified platform with core legal services supported by an AI assistant (DOT) and flexible work arrangements (Fennemore Forward). The firm has expanded geographically through acquisitions including Reynolds Law LLP in Northern California, Galvanize Law for construction law services, and Schmoyer Reinhard LLP in Texas.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• DOT (Dynamic Optimization Technology) Firm-wide AI assistant that processes text-based queries and operates as an autonomous agent to assist with legal work and client service tasks.
• Litigation legal services Counsel and representation in litigation matters for business clients across multiple jurisdictions, including capacity added through the combination with Schmoyer Reinhard LLP in Texas.
• Labor and employment legal services Counsel to business clients on labor and employment matters, with capacity strengthened through the combination with Schmoyer Reinhard LLP in Texas.
• Construction legal services Counsel for construction industry clients; capacity expanded across the Western U.S. through the combination with Galvanize Law.
• Corporate and business transactions legal services Counsel on general corporate and business transactional matters for commercial clients across industries.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability2 records

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Reynolds Law, LLPcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner15 attorneys and legal professionals joined Fennemore from Reynolds Law, LLP, marking expansion in Northern California. This partnership strengthened firm's presence and talent base in the region.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Holland & Hart: Mountain West and Western U.S. business law firm with comparable multi-state footprint and similar practice emphasis on natural resources, construction, L&E and corporate matters.
• Snell & Wilmer: Full-service business law firm headquartered in the Western U.S. with comparable multi-state presence and similar practice-area mix (corporate, litigation, labor and employment, construction). Closest direct peer to Fennemore's pre-expansion footprint and practice profile.
• Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie: Western U.S. business law firm with similar multi-office platform and overlapping practice areas including litigation, L&E and corporate. Directly comparable in scale, geography and full-service positioning.
• Kutak Rock: Mid-size national business law firm with comparable Am Law 200-tier positioning and similar full-service practice mix including construction, public finance and litigation.
• Polsinelli: Am Law 200 business law firm known for aggressive growth via lateral hiring and acquisitions across multiple states. Directly comparable to Fennemore's recent acquisitive expansion playbook.
• Baker Donelson: Am Law 200 firm with strong record of geographic expansion and full-service practice mix including construction, employment and corporate work. Comparable in scale and growth orientation.
• Fox Rothschild: National business law firm with a well-documented strategy of geographic expansion through lateral group and firm combinations. Highly comparable to Fennemore's acquisitive growth model.
• Quarles & Brady: Mid-size national business law firm with similar Am Law 200 standing and full-service practice mix including litigation, labor and employment, and corporate transactions.

Others

• Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath:

Regional players

• Buchalter: West Coast business law firm with overlapping practice areas including construction, corporate and litigation. Comparable practice mix but with a more concentrated California/Western footprint rather than Fennemore's national ambitions.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/WendelRosen
• Facebookfacebook.com/WendelRosen

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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