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For more than 125 years, Baker Donelson has built a reputation for achieving results for our clients on a wide range of legal matters. While providing legal services is our focus, it is how we deliver them that sets us apart. Our goal is to provide clients with more than what they have come to expect from a law firm.
Baker Donelson commits to a deep understanding of a client's business, to enable us to anticipate clients' needs and assist in their decision making processes. Because we offer consistent, knowledgeable guidance based on their specific goals and objectives, clients view us as a valued business partner. This allows them to focus on the growth and success of their business, confident their legal issues will be handled by an attentive, responsive team.
Womble Bond Dickinson is a transatlantic law firm with 1,000+ lawyers based in 29 US/UK office locations serving clients across every business sector. We embrace diversity and inclusion as core values. Our firm has consistently earned a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index (2015-2022). We also successfully met the Mansfield Rule goal of ensuring that women, lawyers of color, LGBTQ+ lawyers, and lawyers with disabilities made up at least 30% of the candidate pool for leadership roles, partner promotions, and client pitches. We earned Mansfield Rule 4.0 Certification in 2021 and now participate in Mansfield Rule 5.0.
Thompson Hine LLP is a full-service business law firm with approximately 400 lawyers in 8 offices, including an office in New York. We advise clients across 33 practice and industry groups covering 144 areas of law – one of which is the dynamic world of new ventures. The firm’s New Ventures team represents high-growth companies of all sizes and stages in technology, health care, life sciences, consumer products, nanomaterials, transportation, communications, media and more. Thompson Hine’s commitment to innovation and excellent client service is demonstrated through SmartPaTH™, a comprehensive and cost-effective approach to delivering legal services.
For more than 130 years, the world’s leading companies have turned to Shook, Hardy & Bacon to obtain favorable results under the most contentious circumstances. Long recognized as one of the premier litigation firms in the U.S., Shook represents companies in science, health and technology sectors, and has represented three-quarters of the Fortune 100 in pharmaceutical and medical devices, automotive, intellectual property, regulatory counseling, environmental and toxic tort, as well as cybersecurity and biometric privacy matters.
Burr & Forman’s experienced legal team serves clients with local, national, and international legal needs. With particular industry strengths in the financial institutions, health care and manufacturing sectors, our attorneys draw from a diverse range of backgrounds and experience to serve as trusted business advisors and legal counsel to help clients achieve their goals. Burr & Forman is a Southeast, regional firm with 360 attorneys and 19 offices in Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.
Littler is the largest global employment and labor law practice, representing management in all aspects of employment and labor law and serving as a single-source solution provider to the global employer community. Consistently recognized in the industry as a leading and innovative law practice, Littler has been litigating, mediating and negotiating some of the most influential employment law cases and labor contracts on record for more than 75 years.