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How much can you really expand these stubs?

Not that I am questioning the existence of this article in Wikipedia now after the successful AFD discussion. How much expansion can these stubs ever hope to have? Apart from what we have now in this company, I can't see it getting any bigger barring new developments (like taking on a big notable law case). Apart from the top three or four firms in Israel (looking through the category), I can't see too many assertions of notability for the majority of them to be included in Wikipedia. This particular law firm S. Horowitz & Co. do have the notability to be in Wikipedia, but that cannot be said for a LOT of the firms in Category:Law firms in Israel. --Eqdoktor 09:34, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I would not want to comment on other law firms in Israel. Regarding this law firm, given that it is a verifiable fact that it was ranked the overall leading law firm for this jurisdiction by "which lawyer", had more first rankings than any other Israeli law firm in the most recent edition of "European Legal 500" and received plaudits from Chambers and Partners - all of which verifiable from the web pages of these directories, I believe it is appropriate to include this firm in wikipedia. As to notable cases, I do not think these should be mentioned as, for any law firm in any jurisdiction, this information would be on the web site of the law firm ( Ramlin 21:22, 9 February 2007 (UTC)Ramlin).[reply]

Disagree Ramlin. Expand the article with anything relevant, forget about the firm puff webpage which is not reliable for any company for fact. A law firm is a company. I think it is sad that a law firm should be notable only for the number of lawyers, there must be something else that makes it special, like it's history and impact on the law. --Shuki 22:02, 14 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Shuki. You raise some fair points. I agree that the number of lawyers a law firm has is no indication of worthiness. Impact is important. That is the reason I relied on outside (independent) sources (Legal 500, Chambers Global and Which Lawyer) for the contribution I made - in that regard those results makes this firm special (after all it does have the overall top independent rankings in these publications). As to other matters (such as notable cases) again you have a fair point - but what is "notable" in this regard - after all this is a comercial law firm - a list of its big commercial litigation or transactional involvement may not be exciting - although it demonstrates its worthiness in its sector( Ramlin