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The firms were started by German Jewish attorneys. [5] In 1971, the firm took its current form with name partners Walter Fried, Hans Frank, Sam Harris, Sargent Shriver and Leslie Jacobson. Fried Frank has five offices. It opened a Washington, D.C. office in 1949. Fried Frank also opened a Los Angeles office in 1986, but closed it in 2005.
Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander & Ferdon [2] was a prominent New York City law firm tracing its origin back to 1869. [3] [4] [5] The firm was later known as Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie, & Alexander; [6] and was later renamed Mudge, Rose, Guthrie & Alexander. The firm is known best as the legal relaunching pad of Richard Nixon. [7]
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP (known as Cadwalader) is a white-shoe law firm based in New York City. It is the city's oldest law firm [4] [5] and one of the oldest continuously operating legal practices in the United States. [6] Attorney John Wells founded the practice in 1792.
In 1946, Paul, Weiss became the first major New York law firm to have a female partner, Carolyn Agger. [8] [5] Agger worked in the firm's Washington office, which was established the year she was hired. [5] William Thaddeus Coleman Jr. was the first black lawyer hired at the firm. When he was hired in 1949, it was the first time ever that a ...
Schulte Roth & Zabel, LLP (often shortened to "SRZ") is a full service law firm with offices in New York City, Washington, D.C., and London.The number of attorneys practicing at the firm globally is approximately 320 as of 2020, [6] down from approximately 375 attorneys in 2013.
Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP is an American law firm based in New York City with offices also in Washington, D.C. and London. Founded in 1919, it is prominent in the practice areas of capital markets and banking & finance. [2] Cahill's New York headquarters at 32 Old Slip, New York, NY
In 1975, the firm opened an office in Washington, D.C., its first outside New York City, followed in the 1980s by locations in Miami, Houston and Dallas. In 1991, the year that the internet became publicly available, Weil was the first global, non-California law firm to open a Silicon Valley office, in Redwood Shores, California. Later, the ...
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP (known as Cleary Gottlieb), formerly Cleary, Gottlieb, Friendly & Cox and Cleary, Gottlieb, Friendly, Steen & Hamilton, is an American multinational law firm headquartered at One Liberty Plaza in New York City. Known as a white shoe law firm, Cleary employs over 1,200 lawyers worldwide. [3]