Dechert
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Dechert LLP is an international law firm with offices throughout the United States and Europe. It was founded in Philadelphia and is registered as a limited liability partnership under Pennsylvania law.
Dechert has a variety of practices, including corporate, intellectual property and white collar defense. Its product liability litigation group has represented Philip Morris in class action suits, and is currently representing Merck & Co. in suits regarding the drug Vioxx.
Former Bush White House staffer Scooter Libby managed the D.C. office of Dechert prior to accepting the position of Chief of Staff for Vice President Dick Cheney. After being implicated in the Valerie Plame spy scandal, Libby retained Joseph Tate, a Dechert partner, as his attorney.
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[edit] Offices
[edit] USA
- Austin
- Boston
- Charlotte (Bank of America Corporate Center)
- Harrisburg
- Hartford
- Newport Beach
- New York (30 Rockefeller Plaza)
- Palo Alto
- Philadelphia (Cira Centre)
- Princeton
- San Francisco
- Washington, DC
[edit] Europe
Dechert opened its first European office in Brussels in 1968. Four years later, Dechert opened a London office and later established a presence in Paris in 1995. In 2000, the firm undertook a major expansion in the United Kingdom through a merger with Titmuss Sainer Dechert, a leading London law firm. Since then, Dechert has opened offices in Luxembourg and Munich.
- Brussels
- Frankfurt (Trianon)
- London - Dechert's London office is organized as a separate limited liability partnership under British law; however, it has the same name as the international partnership ("Dechert LLP").
- Luxembourg
- Munich
- Paris
