Sidley Austin
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| Type | Limited liability partnership |
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| Founded | 1866 |
| Headquarters | Headquarters in Chicago, 15 offices worldwide |
| Key people | Thomas Cole, Managing Partner |
| Industry | Law |
| Products | Legal services |
| Revenue | N/A |
| Employees | Over 1,700 Attorneys |
| Website | www.sidley.com |
Sidley Austin LLP, formerly known as Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP, is a large US-based corporate law firm with over 1,700 lawyers across the US and the world. Sidley Austin is the sixth largest firm in the world with lawyers in 15 offices worldwide. It is one out of only five law firms in the world with revenues over one billion dollars, with major offices located in Chicago, New York, Washington, DC, and London. It is a full-service law firm, with broad experience in transaction and litigation matters. Its original predecessor firm was founded in 1866 and had Mary Todd Lincoln, the widow of President Abraham Lincoln, among its earliest clients.
The firm was formed as the result of the merger of two firms - the Chicago-based Sidley & Austin, founded in 1866, and the New York-based Brown & Wood, founded in 1914. The merger was completed in May 2001.
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[edit] Locations
The firm has offices in Beijing, Brussels, Chicago, Dallas, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo, and Washington, D.C..
[edit] Sidley during 9/11/01
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, personally affected the employees of Sidley Austin. Prior to the merger creating Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, which took place just four months before the 9/11 terror attacks, the head office of Brown & Wood was in the World Trade Center, while Sidley & Austin had recently opened a small New York office on Third Avenue. Out of 600 employees who worked in the World Trade Center at the time of the attacks, one perished, a support staff worker named Rosemary Smith.
Sidley Austin reopened its New York office on Monday, September 17, 2001 in the old Sidley & Austin office on Third Avenue that it had planned on closing on September 16. Instead, it leased four additional floors in that location, in a deal completed less than three hours after the collapse of the World Trade Center. Sidley Austin later opened a permanent new office on Seventh Avenue in July 2002.
[edit] Salary
In the United States, the summer associate starting salary is $2,600/wk ($2,800 in New York), and the first year associate starting salary is $135,000 ($145,000 in New York).
[edit] Name changes
The firm changed its name to Sidley Austin LLP on January 1, 2006.
[edit] Famous Alumni
- Barack Obama was a summer associate in the Chicago office, but never joined the firm as a full-time associate.
- John Zeglis, the former Chief Executive Officer of AT&T Wireless, was an associate (1973-1978) and partner (1978-1984) in the Chicago office, where he spent a significant amount of time helping AT&T navigate through the Federal Communication Commission's orders to breakup the company, before leaving to join AT&T as a corporate vice president.
- Newton Minow, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission under President John F. Kennedy, was a partner in the Chicago office from 1965-1991 and continues to serve as senior counsel to the firm.
