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The large, box-like first floor was largely eliminated. Added to the entrance on Constitution Avenue were a pond, garden, and bridge, so that visitors would have to "cross over the water" like slaves did when they came to America. [55] The Smithsonian estimated in February 2012 that museum would to open in 2015. [56]
The firm acquired its current name in 2004. [4] Schiff Hardin opened a Washington, D.C. office in 1977. An office in New York City (1991) followed. 2002 brought a suburban Chicago office in Lake Forest. In 2007, the firm merged with Morgenstein & Jubelirer to open a San Francisco office, followed by an Ann Arbor, Michigan office in 2012.
In 1947, the firm's labor department, led by J. Mack Swigert, was instrumental in helping Robert Taft, who had become a United States Senator, draft and pass the groundbreaking Taft–Hartley Act that regulated labor unions. [5] [6] In the late 1960s-early 1970s, Murray S. Monroe founded the firm's Antitrust practice. [7] [8]
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Winston & Strawn LLP is an international law firm headquartered in Chicago. It has more than 975 attorneys spread across ten offices in the United States and five offices in Europe, Asia, and South America. [2] Founded in 1853, it is one of the largest and oldest law firms in Chicago. [3] [4] [5]
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP (informally Sonnenschein) was an international law firm with nearly 800 lawyers and other professionals in the United States and Europe, serving businesses, non-profits and individuals. [1] The firm was founded in Chicago in 1906 and as of May 2010 ranked as the 58th-largest law firm in the U.S. by revenue. [2]
Piller did not respond to several requests for comment. Parkash would not discuss the lead paint violations, but his son Anurag Parkash, a housing lawyer for his family’s business, said they take the issue seriously. “You don’t want to say you ruined a kid’s life,” he said. “You want to do the work as soon as possible.”
Albert Henry Loeb resigned from the firm in 1903 to become a full-time executive for Sears. In 1923, United States Senator James Hamilton Lewis, who had lost a re-election bid, joined the firm as a partner, and his name was included in the firm name. [8] To begin his successful bid to regain his seat in the Senate, he resigned from the firm in ...