We seek to help companies succeed and expand here as we have done, and we are active participants in the vibrant entrepreneurial community, providing a wide range of services to Nashville's emerging companies. We are recognized for our work in many legal service areas, with particular strengths in the health care, corporate and securities, litigation, and economic development sectors. Today this office has grown to include nearly 100 lawyers, assisting legal and public policy clients in the booming Nashville economy, across the country and around the world. For a time, the two firms coexisted as friendly rivals among Nashville firms, and as the city boomed, the firms grew and they eventually joined forces in 1994. When the Heiskell Donelson firm started looking to establish a presence in the state capital, the Baker Worthington firm already had strong Middle Tennessee roots. Baker beating Lewis Donelson to the punch. The deep roots of Baker Donelson's Nashville history can be traced to Howard H.