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Lathrop GMP Enters 2025 with 11 New Partners

Kansas City-based Lathrop GPM LLP announces 11 attorneys have become partners at the firm, effective Jan. 1, 2025.

Posted January 3, 2025

Kansas City-based Lathrop GPM LLP announced the firm added 11 attorneys who became partners effective Jan. 1.

“This deep and talented class of new partners, located coast-to-coast in a wide range of practice areas, embodies the geographic breadth and practice depth we offer our clients,” Managing Partner of Lathrop GPM, Cameron Garrison, said in a release Tuesday. “Following our combination with Hopkins Carley last year, our team has only become stronger, and our services have expanded across a variety of practice areas.”

The 11 attorneys, along with their practice and corresponding branches, joining Lathrop GPM include:

Alma Soongi Beck – Private Client Services (Redwood Shores)
Amy Erickson – Litigation & Dispute Resolution (Minneapolis)
Suzanne C. Farley – Private Client Services (Redwood Shores)
Caitlin R. Gehlen – Labor, Employment & Higher Education (Minneapolis)
Michael W. M. Manoukian – Labor, Employment & Higher Education (San Jose)
Julie Nichols Matthews – Intellectual Property (Chicago)
Beth T. Morrison – Private Client Services (Minneapolis)
Dinah X. Ortiz – Intellectual Property Litigation (San Jose)
Thomas (Tom) A. Rodriguez – Private Client Services (Denver)
Michael J. Spellberg, Ph.D. – Intellectual Property (Boston)
Daniel (Dan) J. Weinberg – Intellectual Property Litigation (Redwood Shores)

In October, Lathrop GPM officially combined with California-based Hopkins Carley. The merger added approximately 360 attorneys across 13 nationwide offices —including offices in San Jose and Redwood Shores — to Lathrop. Former Hopkins Carley Executive Director, Dori Yob Kilmer, also became Lathrop GPM’s new Chief of Legal Operations as a result od the merger.