Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott is combining with a small trusts and estates law firm in Pittsburgh, Tener, Van Kirk, Wolf and Moore.

The combination with Eckert Seamans comes less than two months after Tener Van Kirk’s managing partner, Robert Wolf, died of cancer. Eckert Seamans CEO Tim Ryan said Wolf’s sickness and death was unexpected. The merger was already well in the works when Wolf became sick, he said.