600 Travis, Suite 4200 Houston, Texas 77002 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Straight talk is how we communicate--with clients, colleagues, courts and adversaries. It's our promise to give you advice instead of just options, the bottom line instead of lawyer-speak, and the truth about where you stand and what we think. Though our individual styles may vary, our constant goal is to cut through confusi…
Thurman Arnold Building 555 12th Street N.W. Washington, D.C. 20004-1202 U.S.A. Arnold & Porter is one of the largest law firms in the United States and in the world. It has a long history of representing corporations in all aspects of modern business law, from taxation and financing to antitrust and mergers and acquisitions. Since the 1950s it has represented Philip Morris Inc. The firm in the p…
1900 East 9th Street, National City Center, Suite 3200 Cleveland, Ohio 44114-3485 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Baker & Hostetler LLP was founded on the belief that we would strive to create successful, long-term relationships with clients, dedicate ourselves to the profession and be good corporate citizens in the communities where we live and work. That belief has helped us grow into one of the n…
130 East Randolph Drive Chicago, Illinois 60601 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Baker & McKenzie was the first law firm to recognize the importance of a global perspective. While competitors focused on domestic markets, we chose to look further afield, with a foresight that enabled us to service our clients wherever their businesses took them. The Firm was established in 1949, decades before the con…
One Shell Plaza, 910 Louisiana Houston, Texas 77002-4995 U.S.A. With branch offices in Dallas, Austin, New York, London, Moscow, Washington, D.C., and Baku, Azerbaijan, the Houston-based law firm Baker & Botts, L.L.P. ranks among the 50 largest law firms in the world, based on gross revenues and number of attorneys. It represents over half the Fortune 500 companies and many other clients, includi…
150 Federal Street Boston, Massachusetts 02110 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Bingham Dana gets it done. Helping our clients prosper in this dynamic and challenging environment is the mission of Bingham Dana: more than 500 attorneys who understand that business judgment is an essential component of sound legal advice, that imagination can be just as important as intelligence—and that markets and …
200 Aldersgate Street London EC1A 4JJ United Kingdom Clifford Chance LLP is the world's largest law firm, based on its approximately 3,000 lawyers operating in some 30 offices. That status is based on two events. First, in 1987 it became England's largest law firm with the merger of Coward Chance and Clifford-Turner. Then in 2000 it merged with New York City's Rogers & Wells and Germany's Punder,…
1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20004-2401 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: For more than 80 years, Covington & Burling has enjoyed a broad reputation for two paramount qualities--representation of clients according to the highest professional standards and dedication to public service. One of the United States' preeminent law firms, Covington & Burling, with its more than 450 lawyers, …
1301 Avenue of the Americas New York, New York 10019-6092 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our lawyers share an aggressive commitment to unrivaled client service. From our most junior associate to our most senior partner, we never lose sight of the need to produce high-quality legal work in a responsive, cost-effective, and personalized manner. We believe that there is no substitute for "battle-teste…
50 South Sixth Street, Suite 1500 Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402-1498 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Because business doesn't stop at 5 p.m. in your time zone, you need a law firm that works 24 hours a day. A firm whose capabilities don't stop at domestic borders. A firm whose dedication to client service is a global priority. Dorsey & Whitney LLP is that law firm. Because we have locations worldwide…
Two Palo Alto Square Palo Alto, California 94306 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Fenwick & West is a leading 'Silicon Valley' law firm which has represented hundreds of growth-oriented companies from inception. Many of these have become major public companies. It also represents institutional investors and venture capital firms, and has been a leader in structuring new financing vehicles for start-u…
1251 Avenue of the Americas New York City, New York 10020-1104 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our practice serves our clients' business needs, in every area of intellectual property law. Our unparalleled experience and commitment to excellence enables us to provide cost-effective service and results that are second to none. Fish & Neave, one of the nation's most respected law firms, specializes in …
1221 Brickell Avenue Miami, Florida 33131 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: For more than three decades, our firm has challenged traditional approaches and worked to provide practical business-focused solutions for emerging companies and Fortune 500 Corporations. Miami-based Greenberg Traurig, LLP is an international law firm with approximately 1,100 lawyers in 24 offices located in such major U.S. ci…
555 Thirteenth Street N.W. Washington, D.C. 20004 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: When you join a law firm, you join a group of people. The people of Hogan & Hartson L.L.P. (Hogan & Hartson) are our greatest strength. We come from across the country and around the world. We are committed to preeminence in a full spectrum of legal services throughout the three major areas of our practice--commercial,…
195 Broadway, 24th floor New York, New York 10007 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Holland & Knight has more than 1,250 lawyers serving clients globally in virtually every area of the law. We encourage you to evaluate our firm based on the principles that drive us: strong and supportive relationships with our communities and clients and commitments to diversity and continuing education. With 31 domes…
1 Battery Park Plaza New York, New York 10004-1482 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our docket covers the full range of courts and administrative agencies through the U.S., management of litigation in foreign courts and alternative dispute resolution. Our litigation specialties include, among other things, antitrust; insurance damage claims arising from toxic torts, product liability, and mass disast…
101 Park Avenue New York, New York 10178-0002 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The time is now. The next century is approaching. New revolutions and industries are unfolding, from genetic engineering to virtual reality. The shape of the world is changing and Kelley Drye is bringing its industry knowledge and cross-disciplinary skills to bear for a diversified group of clients. We're not only helping …
191 Peachtree Street Atlanta, Georgia 30303-1763 U.S.A. King & Spalding is the largest law firm in Atlanta and one of the largest in the Southeast. The firm is engaged in the general practice of law, and its 420 lawyers practice in 23 specific areas. Among the latter are antitrust, banking and finance, bankruptcy and commercial litigation, corporate, environmental, governmental, health care, inte…
Aon Center, 200 E. Randolph Drive Chicago, Illinois 60601 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: The Firm's goal is to be an instrumental part of each client's success. Based on gross revenue of $611 million, Kirkland & Ellis LLP is the largest law firm in Chicago and the 12th largest in the United States, according to American Lawyer magazine, using 2002 financial results. It is also the fifth most profit…
633 West Fifth Street, Suite 4000 Los Angeles, California 90071-2007 U.S.A. Latham & Watkins is one of the world's largest law firms, with about 1,000 attorneys practicing in 14 American and international offices. It represents business clients in many industries, including healthcare, software, and technology. From its historic foundation of tax and labor law, Latham & Watkins has diversified to…
425 Market Street San Francisco California 94105-2482 U.S.A. Company Perspectives We have one compelling mission: to deliver success for our clients. Based in San Francisco, Morrison & Foerster LLP, is the largest law firm in California and the 16th largest in the United States. It maintains 12 offices in the United States, including Los Angeles, New York, Palo Alto, and Washington, D.C., as well…
Plaza VII, Suite 3300 45 S. 7th Street Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our Values: All across our firm, Oppenheimer attorneys and staff subscribe to the same set of core values: Relationship-based Client Service; Talent-based Quality; Innovation; Respect: Entrepreneurial Spirit; Team Mindset; Diversity. Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly LLP offers its legal expertise to busin…
2550 M St. NW Washington, D.C. 20037 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: At Patton Boggs, we see opportunities where others see problems. Our ability to see things differently, viewing issues in light of a broader range of possibilities, allows us to translate client ideas and problems into creative results and solutions. Patton Boggs LLP is a Washington, D.C.-based full-service law firm best known for …
3000 Two Logan Square Eighteenth and Arch Streets Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103-2799 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: We counsel each client as if it were our only client. We commit our combined skills and experience to solve client problems, exercise objective and independent judgment consistent with the highest ethical standards, join with clients to identify and achieve their objectives, and fo…
1201 3rd Avenue, Suite 4800 Seattle, Washington 98101 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: If managing a law firm, as the old saying goes, is like herding cats, imagine what it's like to manage Perkins Coie--a firm of almost 500 attorneys in 14 offices worldwide with a Beijing office soon to come. Observers of the legal scene say Robert E. Giles is a master at the task, keeping most of those independent …
1585 Broadway New York, New York 10036 U.S.A. Proskauer Rose LLP is among the largest American law firms and one of the top ten based in New York City, offering a wide variety of legal services to major clients throughout the United States and the world. Unlike some of New York's elite firms, it cannot rely on traditional ties to old money or the big investment banks that are a source of fat fees…
Bank One Plaza, 10 South Dearborn Chicago, Illinois 60603 U.S.A. One of the world's largest law firms, Chicago-based Sidley Austin Brown & Wood is a legal powerhouse with several branch offices in the United States, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. The firm has a long history in traditional industries such as electrical utilities, communications, and railroads. After World War II, it began serv…
425 Lexington Avenue New York, New York 10017-3954 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: We believe that the talent of our associates is considerable, as we consistently attract the nation's top law students. Associates and partners alike demonstrate commitment to communities as well as clients, making substantial and ongoing pro bono contributions across a breadth of not-for-profit issues and organizatio…
125 Broad Street New York, New York 10004-2498 U.S.A. Sullivan & Cromwell is one of the nation's elite law firms. For more than a century it has been closely involved in the affairs of some of the largest industrial and commercial enterprises in the United States. Sullivan & Cromwell also has been closely involved in the formulation and execution of U.S. foreign policy and the development and gro…
90 Church Street New York, New York 10007 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: By providing counsel and assistance to those in need, the Society strives on a daily basis to honor its commitment to secure, through the law, the rights and the protection of the poor which should be afforded to all. In doing so, the Society helps to ensure that our civilization remains just in its treatment of all people. Th…
1155 Avenue of the Americas New York, New York 10036-2787 U.S.A. White & Case LLP is one of the largest law firms in the world and in November 1999 ranked fifth among the International Financial Law Review list of fastest growing firms in the world, based on its annual growth rate of about 20 percent. Unlike most American-based law firms, White & Case operates numerous overseas offices to meet it…
725 Twelfth Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20005-5901 U.S.A. Williams & Connolly LLP is one of the United States' largest law firms. Although it describes itself in the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory as having a "Practice in Federal Courts and before Federal Departments and Agencies," it does other work in a variety of legal specialties. The firm is well known for criminal defense, the expertise…
650 Page Mill Road Palo Alto, California 94304 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Our mission is to be a strategic business partner with each of our clients by leveraging our expertise and experience to provide innovative, responsive, and cost-effective legal solutions. We understand that the law is a means to accomplish our clients' business objectives, not an end in itself. Our clients are business p…
35 West Wacker Drive Chicago, Illinois 60601-9703 U.S.A. Company Perspectives: Since before the Civil War, Winston & Strawn has attracted and produced some of the country's ablest and most influential lawyers. Founders Frederick H. Winston and Silas H. Strawn played vital roles in Chicago's emergence as a powerful business and financial center. As former four-term governor of Illinois and chairma…