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unusual facts about law firms



Racial quota

The law student organization Building a Better Legal Profession has developed a method to encourage politically liberal students to avoid law firms whose racial makeup is markedly different than that of the population as a whole.


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Advocates for Informed Choice

On May 14, 2013, Advocates for Informed Choice, The Southern Poverty Law Center, and pro bono counsel for the private law firms of Janet, Jenner & Suggs and Steptoe & Johnson LLP filed a lawsuit against South Carolina Department of Social Services (SCDSS), Greenville Health System, Medical University of South Carolina and individual employees for performing an irreversible and medically unnecessary surgery on an infant who was in the state’s care at the time of the surgery.

Albert Theodore Powers

He served as Asian Managing Partner for several of the world’s leading law firms, including Shearman & Sterling and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

Birkett Long LLP

Birkett Long LLP is one of the largest law firms in Essex with offices in Colchester, Basildon and Chelmsford and has a staff in excess of 150, including 22 partners.

Boutique law firm

Looking beyond U.S. borders, litigation law firms based in Europe include Tiberghien, Oppenhoff & Partner and Tedioli, and based in Canada, Adler Bytensky Prutschi Shikhman specializes in criminal law.

Carrie Kei Heim

Heim has worked as a clerk for Jeffrey R. Howard of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and as a litigation associate for the law firms Cravath, Swaine & Moore and Mintz Levin.

Case management

Legal case management, a set of management approaches for law firms or courts

Coudert Brothers

One reason for the decline of Coudert Brothers was the rise of other competitive multinational law firms in the 1990s and 2000s, such as Clifford Chance, White & Case and Baker & McKenzie.

Denton Wilde Sapte

Denton Wilde Sapte was one of the largest law firms in the Middle East, the biggest international firm in Central Asia, and one of very few international law firms in Cairo, Istanbul, Kuwait and Muscat.

Divya Narendra

One of ConnectU's law firms, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, disclosed the confidential settlement amount in marketing material by printing "WON $65 million settlement against Facebook".

Fiscale Hogeschool

These prices are awarded by accounting firms such as PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte, KPMG, Ernst & Young and BDO and by law firms like Tiberghien and Loyens & Loeff.

Golden Circle

Silver Circle, the second tier of English law firms; also known as the Golden Circle

Gowlings

Starting in the mid-1990s, Gowlings methodically solidified a national platform through a succession of mergers with other law firms in Vancouver, Hamilton, Calgary, Montréal, Toronto and Kanata.

Greenfield Belser

Greenfield/Belser has designed brands and programs for over 300 law firms including large international firms such as Jones Day, Clifford Chance and Morgan Lewis and small firms such as Marger Johnson.

Kip A. Petroff

Mr. Petroff is also currently co-lead counsel with a group of law firms representing hundreds of Tarrant County, Texas homeowners against several natural gas companies in the Barnett Shale.

Laurence Silberman

Silberman has worked in the private sector as a partner at the law firms Moore, Silberman & Schulze in Honolulu and Morrison & Foerster and Steptoe & Johnson in Washington, D.C. He has also served as Executive Vice President of Crocker National Bank in San Francisco.

Lions in the Street

Lions in the Street: The Inside Story of the Great Wall Street Law Firms is a 1973 book by Paul Hoffman.

Metida

Metida is one of the leading IP law firms in Lithuania in submitting a large number of applications of the European Community trademarks (CTM) and designs.

Regions-Harbert Plaza

Major tenants include Regions Financial Corporation; law firms Balch & Bingham and Maynard Cooper & Gale; and the accounting firms PricewaterhouseCoopers and Ernst & Young and Northwestern Mutual Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company.

Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo

A number of multinational firms have their Japanese offices in Roppongi, including investment banks Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, State Street, manufacturer Corning Incorporated, and law firms Allen & Overy, Davis Polk & Wardwell, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.

Silver Circle

White shoe firms or Charmed Circle, referring to law firms perceived to be the leading New York City law firms.

Steven D. Wolens

He is married to former Dallas, Texas mayor Laura Miller, and he was a partner at the Dallas law firms of Baron & Budd, and Diamond & McCarthy.

U.S.-Russia Business Council

There are over 300 members, including Alfa-Bank, Boeing, Cargill, Chadbourne & Parke, Citigroup, Coca-Cola, Ford, Procter & Gamble, and other leading businesses, banks, law firms, accounting firms and organizations.

UCL Law Society

A wide range of other law firms run events as well as professional service firms which in recent years have included KPMG, Macquarie and McKinsey & Company.

Use of social media in the Wisconsin protests

With the use of his blog and Twitter account he was able to get the message out in attempt to convince other law firms to do the same.

Waleed Iqbal

Between 1997 and 2004, he worked for two leading international law firms, Sullivan & Cromwell, and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.

WFED

On January 11, 2007, while being interviewed on WFED's morning program The Federal Drive, then-Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs Charles "Cully" Stimson criticized some major U.S. law firms for representing detainees at Guantanamo Bay free of charge.

Xavier Romeu

After receiving a law degree from Columbia University, he worked as a litigator for the New York law firms of Sullivan & Cromwell and Proskauer Rose.