Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan LLP announced Wednesday that the firm has opened an office in New York City, its ninth location.

The move is aimed at strengthening the firm's existing real estate, employment, and corporate and transactional groups and attracting new corporate and municipal clients based in the New York metropolitan area.

"Nearly everyone would agree that New York is both the legal and business epicenter of the United States," Emery Harlan, partner of the Milwaukee-based firm, said in a prepared statement announcing the move. “As our firm continues to grow aggressively, expanding into New York was the logical next step.”

Key current clients in the area include Accenture, Limited Brands and Summit Business Media.

Philip Berg and Angela Dorn, formerly of Berg & Dorn Law Partners, in Manhattan, will join Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan as managing partners for the New York office.

Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan, one of the nation’s largest minority-owned law firms, has more than 75 attorneys in offices located in Milwaukee, Chicago, Indianapolis, Des Moines, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Las Vegas, New York and Washington D.C.