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A boutique law firm is a law firm specializing in a niche area of law practice. While a general practice law firm includes various unrelated practice areas within a single firm, a boutique firm specializes in one or a select few practice areas.
The firm is a spin-off of Chicago-based law firm Kirkland and Ellis. The American Lawyer magazine named the firm its litigation boutique of the year for 2009. [6] In 2018, the firm named Jason Peltz as managing partner to replace founding partner Skip Herman. [7] In 2020, Benchmark Litigation named Bartlit Beck its trial firm of the year. [8]
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Seyfarth Shaw LLP (/ ˈ s aɪ f ɑːr θ / SY-farth) [3] is an international AmLaw 100 law firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.Founded in Chicago in 1945 by Henry Seyfarth, Lee Shaw, and Owen Fairweather, Seyfarth Shaw originally focused on the area of labor and employment law.
The firm was founded in 1929 and became known as Thompson Coburn in 1996 through the merger of two St. Louis firms, Thompson & Mitchell and Coburn & Croft. [citation needed] In July 2007 Thompson Coburn merged with Fagel Haber of Chicago. [6] In 2013, the firm merged with Los Angeles-based Freedman Weisz LLP and opened an office in Los Angeles. [7]
The firm was also named to The National Law Journal's 2015 "IP Hot List." [39] Also in 2015, Law360 named the firm's Bankruptcy, Workout and Corporate Reorganization Practice a "Bankruptcy Group of the Year." [40] In 2005, the firm received the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty's "Legal Service Award" for its work with death row ...
Kirkland & Ellis LLP is an American multinational law firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1909, Kirkland & Ellis is the largest law firm in the world by revenue and the seventh-largest by number of attorneys. [6] It was the first law firm in the world to reach US$7 billion in annual revenue. [7]
As of 2019, it was the eighth largest law firm in the world (and sixth in the US) by revenue. [23] The firm frequently appears at the top of various industry rankings. In 2020, the BTI Consulting Group named Sidley to its BTI Client Service A-Team—one of only three law firms to rank in BTI's Client Service Top 30 for 19 consecutive years. [24]