Holland & Knight is a major law firm with roots in Florida and Texas, a small army of lobbyists, attorneys who have run for public office and a political action committee that spends nearly half-a-million dollars per election cycle.
When it comes to taking a stance on abortion rights and other social issues, the firm’s leader wants it to be apolitical.
“We try and stay basically out of the politics and really focus on our job as lawyers and representing clients,” Steven Sonberg, Holland & Knight’s managing partner since 2008, said in a wide-ranging interview. “It’s more challenging today than ...