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After Barney's retirement, the firm evolved from different partnerships. In 1874, William Allen Butler, Thomas E. Stillman and Thomas H. Hubbard became partners and the name of the law firm became Butler, Stillman & Hubbard. In 1880, John Notman, Adrine Joline Wilhelmus Mynderse and William Allen Butler, Jr., became partners in the law firm. When Stillman and Hubbard retired in 1896, they took over the firm and changed its name to Butler, Notman, Joline & Mynderse.<ref>
After Barney's retirement, the firm evolved from different partnerships. In 1874, William Allen Butler, Thomas E. Stillman and Thomas H. Hubbard became partners and the name of the law firm became Butler, Stillman & Hubbard. In 1880, John Notman, Adrine Joline Wilhelmus Mynderse and William Allen Butler, Jr., became partners in the law firm. When Stillman and Hubbard retired in 1896, they took over the firm and changed its name to Butler, Notman, Joline & Mynderse.<ref>
[http://books.google.com/books?id=zYWAAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA212&lpg=PA212&dq=Butler,+Notman,+Joline+%26+Mynderse&source=bl&ots=QndMxWoWUI&sig=8m4mPPDRbsHY6cqoDrInp-Dd61E&hl=en&sa=X&ei=oi8rT6-5E5P8iQLe4ZnmCg&ved=0CCIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Butler%2C%20Notman%2C%20Joline%20%26%20Mynderse&f=false A Retrospect of Forty Years 1825-1865]</ref>
[http://books.google.com/books?id=zYWAAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA212&lpg=PA212&dq=Butler,+Notman,+Joline+%26+Mynderse&source=bl&ots=QndMxWoWUI&sig=8m4mPPDRbsHY6cqoDrInp-Dd61E&hl=en&sa=X&ei=oi8rT6-5E5P8iQLe4ZnmCg&ved=0CCIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Butler%2C%20Notman%2C%20Joline%20%26%20Mynderse&f=false A Retrospect of Forty Years 1825-1865]</ref>
In 1905, the law firm split into two partnership wherein Butler, Notman and Mynderse concentrated legal practice on admiralt industry.On June 5, 1907 Willian J. Wallace, the late presiding justice of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals joined the firm after the deaths of Mynderse and Notman on 1906 and 1907 respectively. The firm was renamed Wallace, Butler and Brown.<ref>
[http://books.google.com/books?id=zYWAAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA212&lpg=PA212&dq=Butler,+Notman,+Joline+%26+Mynderse&source=bl&ots=QndMxWoWUI&sig=8m4mPPDRbsHY6cqoDrInp-Dd61E&hl=en&sa=X&ei=oi8rT6-5E5P8iQLe4ZnmCg&ved=0CCIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Butler%2C%20Notman%2C%20Joline%20%26%20Mynderse&f=false A Retrospect of Forty Years 1825-1865]</ref> The other partnership was named Joline, Larkin and Rathbone focused providing legal services corporations and retained some of the clients of its precursor such as the Central Trust Company of New York. The firm helped re-organized different companies including Metropolitan Street Railway and the New York City Railway (1907), Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company (1908), St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad and Maxwell Motor Company, Inc. (1913) etc.<ref>[http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Kelley-Drye-amp;-Warren-LLP-company-History.html Company Histories and Profile: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP]</ref>
Nicholas Kelley joined Larkin, Rathbone & Perry as partner in 1921. The firm was instrumental in reorganizing the Maxwell Motor Company and successfully negotiated a deal with Chase Securities to finance the production of new cars designed by Walter Chrysler. The firm also negotiated the sale of the Chrysler building in New York. Chrysler is still a client of the firm. In 1930, Wilson Drye joined as partner in the company.<ref>
http://www.kelleydrye.com/news/in_the_media/0721/_res/id=Files/index=0/Bankruptcy%20Professional_Spotlight_James%20Carr.pdf Bankruptcy Professional Spotlight:James S. Carr, Kelley Drye Warren LLP Partner & Chair of the Bankruptcy and Restructuring Practice Group]</ref
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