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Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete has counseled employers exclusively since 1946. With offices in 15 states, we are one of the largest labor and employment law practices in the U.S. Constangy has been named as a top firm for women and minorities by organizations including Law360, the National Law Journal and Vault.com. Many of our more than 180 attorneys have been recognized by leading authorities such as Chambers & Partners, Best Lawyers in America® and Martindale Hubbell.
Kirkland & Ellis is an international law firm with 2,500 attorneys representing clients in litigation, intellectual property, dispute resolution/arbitration, private equity, M&A and other complex corporate transactions, and restructuring matters. The Firm has no headquarters location, and operates from 15 offices around the world: Beijing, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Munich, New York, Palo Alto, Paris, San Francisco, Shanghai and Washington, D.C.
Nossaman is an innovative mid-sized law firm working on cutting-edge issues across eight U.S. offices. Our expertise is focused in distinct areas of law and policy, as well as in specific industries. With a strong foundation in California, we have built nationally recognized practices in infrastructure, litigation, healthcare, environment and real estate, public policy, and corporate law.
The Firm has been an industry leader in California for seven decades. We know the land, the law, the courts, and the lawmakers. We also know the issues, from local bank failures and congested highways, to environmental conservation issues and scarce water supply. Nossaman is helping to solve many of the complex challenges public agencies and companies doing business in California face today.
Additionally, we offer strong capabilities in Washington, DC, resulting from a strategic merger that expanded the Firm's depth in several core areas including public policy, environmental permitting and litigation, and infrastructure. Nossaman attorneys in the capital monitor regulatory and legislative developments that affect clients' economic and legal interests and present clients' views on these issues to Members of Congress and Administration officials so that they are considered when decisions are made. We also specialize in administrative law proceedings before the agencies and the courts.
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With over 1,400 lawyers in 31 offices across North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP is a fully integrated global law firm that provides clients with connected legal advice, wherever and whenever they need it. The firm is known for its relationship-driven, collaborative culture, diverse legal experience and industry-shaping innovation and offers clients one of the most active M&A, real estate, financial services, litigation and corporate risk practices in the world.
McGuireWoods LLP is a leading international law firm with 1,100 lawyers in 22 offices worldwide. It ranks as the top firm in the business of law in Financial Times’ prestigious North America Innovative Lawyers report. The firm has been recognized 13 times on BTI Consulting’s “Client Service A-Team” — elite firms singled out for client service excellence based on unprompted feedback from clients in major companies.
Axinn combines the skills, experience and dedication of the world's largest firms with the focus, responsiveness, efficiency and attention to client needs of the best boutiques. The firm was established in the late 1990s by lawyers from premier Wall Street firms with a common vision: provide the highest level of service and strategic acumen in antitrust, intellectual property and high-stakes litigation. Axinn’s lawyers have served as lead or co-lead counsel on nearly half a trillion dollars in transactions and, in the last 10 years alone, have handled more than 250 litigations.
At Seyfarth Shaw, we are leading the way to deliver legal services more effectively, more efficiently, more transparently.
Seyfarth Shaw LLP provides thoughtful, strategic, practical legal counsel to client companies and legal teams of all sizes. With more than 850 attorneys in the U.S., London, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Melbourne and Sydney, we offer a national platform and an international gateway to serve your changing business and legal needs in litigation, employment, corporate, real estate and employee benefits.
Seyfarth attorneys are:
- Client-Focused: A constant, unrelenting focus on the needs of our clients
- Forward-Thinking: A commitment to excellence and to constantly seeking better ways to serve our clients
- Innovative: An atmosphere that fosters creative innovative thinking
We have gained acclaim for our innovative SeyfarthLean client service model, which incorporates the core principles of Lean Six Sigma to the delivery of legal services, and we continue to develop new reporting and project management tools for greater transparency and collaboration with our clients.
Our efforts have contributed to our recognition by in-house counsel as ‘Best of the Best’ for client service within the BTI Consulting Group's Client Service A-Team and being named by the Financial Times U.S. Innovative Lawyers Report among the most innovative law firms.
Seyfarth Shaw. The difference is clear.
Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila LLP is a national law firm whose lawyers have handled and successfully resolved some of the most challenging, complex, and high-stakes legal issues. They have a team of experienced lawyers, based in four offices, who serve their clients' interests nationally and around the world. Their clients range from individuals and small privately held companies to large international corporations.
They represent dozens of publicly traded companies including many currently on the Fortune 100 list and several in the Fortune 50. Their lawyers are focused on obtaining the best results for their clients, from negotiated settlements to litigation and trial. They have tried hundreds of cases in more than 25 state and federal courts and have defended class actions in more than 30 different states.
Their clients value and trust them because they offer much more than legal counsel. They understand and uphold their priorities, they serve as their partners and trusted advisors, and they align their services and their pricing with what matters most to them. They deliver value according to how their clients define value. They are a law firm built for clients.
At Severson, we constantly strive to become and remain a valued component of our clients' support teams and recognize that our satisfaction and success depend on long-term partnerships with our clients.
Severson has been an integral part in the growth of modern banking, but has developed into a full service law firm to serve the diverse needs of its clients, including but not limited to, employment, financial services and trial work.
We focus relentlessly on our Clients’ definition of success. We value talent, creativity, and commitment. We own battle-hardened expertise and profound “institutional memory” for our Clients’ businesses. We deliver sound counsel, fierce advocacy, and timely, cost-effective results.
White & Case is an international law firm that serves companies, governments and financial institutions. Our long history as a global firm means we are uniquely placed to help our clients resolve their most complex legal challenges wherever they are. From bet-the-company litigation to groundbreaking, cross-border transactions, the IP lawyers in our Firm’s global network deliver decades of experience combined with a broad scope of technical expertise. This knowledge base, combined with our cross-practice strength and worldwide presence, enables us to advise clients on domestic matters as well as issues spanning multiple jurisdictions.
Holland & Knight is a global law firm with more than 1,300 lawyers and other professionals in 28 offices throughout the world. Among the nation’s largest law firms, Holland & Knight provides representation in litigation, business, real estate and governmental law. Interdisciplinary practice groups and industry-based teams provide clients with access to attorneys throughout the firm, regardless of location.
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP operates according to the “one firm” principle, allowing us to bring the right mix of Firm-wide skill and local-market presence to deliver the coordinated legal advice necessary to help our clients achieve their goals and objectives. Our lawyers regularly advise clients globally on their most complex Litigation, Corporate, Restructuring and Tax & Benefits matters. Weil has been a preeminent provider of legal services for more than 85 years, and has been a pioneer in establishing a geographic footprint that has allowed the Firm to partner with clients wherever they do business. Weil’s lawyers have been widely recognized by those covering the legal profession as best in class.
In more than 100 years of practice, Steptoe has earned an international reputation for its successful advocacy in litigation and arbitration, vigorous representation of clients before governmental agencies, and creative and practical advice in structuring business transactions. The firm has more than 500 lawyers and other professional staff across offices in Beijing, Brussels, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Washington
With a global team of more than 1,500 partners and lawyers, Squire Patton Boggs provides clients with unique insight at the point where law, business and government meet, giving them a voice, supporting their ambitions and achieving successful outcomes. We have grown to become one of the world’s strongest law firms through a unique mix of organic growth to match our clients’ needs, plus astute combinations to bring additional local insight, skills and opportunities.
With 20 offices, 85 practices and over 900 lawyers and professionals, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP is among the world’s largest law firms, yet it strives to provide every client with focused and consistent attention. Recognized as one of the top 30 law firms in the U.S., Akin Gump is known for its strength in litigation and high-stakes appellate work, leadership in groundbreaking transactions and depth in public policy. Akin Gump is committed to creating, expanding and protecting its clients’ assets and interests.
Through its network of domestic and international offices, Akin Gump advises companies across myriad industries in both mature and emerging markets. Akin Gump professionals possess a sharp understanding of the intangible factors in economic and political infrastructures, combining it with first-hand government experience at the highest levels around the world.
For 25 years, Carothers DiSante & Freudenberger LLP has distinguished itself as one of the top employment, labor and immigration law firms in California, representing national and regional employers with California employees in single-plaintiff and class action lawsuits and advising employers on related legal compliance and risk avoidance. The firm has five offices throughout California – in Sacramento, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Orange County and San Diego.
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Shearman & Sterling is a global firm with approximately 850 lawyers in 22 offices around the world. The firm partners with corporations, major financial institutions, emerging growth companies, governments and state owned enterprises to provide the legal advice and industry insight needed to navigate the challenges of today and achieve their future ambitions.
Keesal, Young & Logan (KYL) enjoys an international reputation for outstanding client service, inventive legal advice and superb trial advocacy. KYL represents clients across a wide range of industries and has proudly served many of those clients for decades. The Daily Journal selected KYL as a Top Boutique in California in 2018, and KYL’s commitment to diversity is evidenced by the fact that it is majority owned by women, LGBT, veterans and people with disabilities.
Hunton Andrews Kurth is a global law firm of more than 1,000 lawyers handling transactional, litigation and regulatory matters for clients in a myriad of industries including energy, financial services, real estate, retail and consumer products and technology. With offices across the United States and in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, we’re aligned with our clients’ businesses and committed to delivering exceptional service. Follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube.
Founded in 1998, Munger, Tolles & Olson’s Women’s Initiative brings together a diverse group of women and men from the firm’s three offices, who are committed to:
- Recruiting and retaining women attorneys1, with a particular focus on diverse women attorneys;
- Providing women attorneys with tools to facilitate and support successful legal careers;
- Ensuring that the firm is at the forefront of setting policies that foster an environment where women attorneys can build and lead successful legal careers; and
- Working to ensure that women attorneys are adequately represented across the leadership of the firm, its practice groups and with its clients.
The Women’s Initiative works closely with the firm’s other diversity initiatives, as well as with external organizations with similar missions, to identify and adopt best practices that will advance these goals.