Industry
veteran retains leadership, bolstered by additional expertise.
Mancini•Duffy has retained a
new senior design professional to bolster its law firm practice led by industry
veteran Dina Frank, AIA,IIDA, principal and president emeritus. Stephen Gertz, a
widely recognized expert in the design of corporate offices, with particular
expertise and extensive experience with law firms has joined the team as the
Director of its Law Firm practice.
Mr. Gertz comes to Mancini•Duffy
with
nearly four decades of experience as Executive Vice President and
Principal with Keiser Associates. There, he brought, designed, and managed a
broad range of law firm projects including those for Mound Cotton Wollan & Greengrass,
LLP and BuckleySandler, LLP. His most recent finished work was a renovation
project for Morgan Lewis & Bockius, LLP. The work involved upgrades to a
14,000 square-foot conference center, the integration of full AV systems in all
rooms and a new 25,000 square-foot practice floor featuring new planning and
design standards which were implemented throughout the firm.
His success in developing working relationships—some as much
as 20 years long—with his clients has led many of them to follow him to
Mancini•Duffy, where he can effectively continue to serve them in a larger,
more diversified firm with a strong history of quality design and service. Gertz
holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Notre Dame.
“As client and industry needs change, we felt it time to deepen
our expertise and bring Stephen to our team. His insight will further enable Mancini•Duffy to make bold, prudent moves in the future,
especially as the firm moves into its next 100 years,” said Dina Frank. “We are
excited to add Stephen’s skills to the law firm practice team, and I am
thrilled to be working with him.”
Mancini•Duffy’s law firm practice has served many of the
nation’s premiere legal powerhouse firms, including Latham & Watkins,
Dorsey & Whitney and Stroock & Stroock & Lavan.
