Dykema Raids Schwartz Cooper to Boost Windy City Presence (Law.com) Detroit's Dykema Gossett has announced that 53 lawyers from Chicago's Schwartz Cooper will be absorbed into the firm as it seeks to bolster its Windy City operations. The transaction is being billed as a mass lateral move, with the bulk of 64-lawyer Schwartz Cooper joining 330-lawyer Dykema. Derek Cottier, a Schwartz Cooper real estate partner who served as the firm's lead negotiator on the ...