Latham & Watkins
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| Type | Limited liability partnership |
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| Founded | 1934 |
| Headquarters | 24 offices - No headquarters |
| Key people | Robert Dell, Chairman and Managing Partner |
| Industry | Legal services |
| Products | Full legal services |
| Revenue | N/A |
| Employees | 1,900 Attorneys |
| Slogan | N/A |
| Website | www.lw.com |
Latham & Watkins LLP is one of the largest and most prestigious international law firms in the world, currently employing more than 1,900 attorneys based in the U.S., Europe and Asia. The firm was started in Los Angeles in 1934 and has extensive California roots, but its largest office is now in New York City.
It currently has 1,900 attorneys throughout its offices in: Barcelona, Brussels, Chicago, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Munich, New Jersey, New York, Orange County, Virginia, Paris, San Diego, San Francisco, Shanghai, Silicon Valley, Singapore, Tokyo, and Washington D.C.
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[edit] Recognition
The American Lawyer's 2006 A-list ranked Latham & Watkins 3rd in the nation out of over 200 firms[1] taking into account factors such as diversity, dedication to pro bono, prestige and associate satisfaction. It ranked 8th in the 2007 Vault Prestige List, a survey which asks law firm associates to rank the perceived prestige of the major law firms[2]. Further, in 2007 the Vault ranked Latham as one of the "Best 20 Firms to Work For," one of only three large New York-based firms to make the list.[3]
[edit] Notable Latham & Watkins attorneys
- Kirk Davenport II - High-yield debt analyst.
- David Gordon and Bill Voge - project finance attorneys.
- John Kirby - IP attorney, in honor of whom Nintendo named its "Kirby" character after a series of high-profile cases
- Maureen Mahoney - Former Deputy Solicitor General in 1991, represented the University of Michigan before the Supreme Court in Grutter v. Bollinger
- Joshua Stein- One of the leading writers on commercial real estate law in the US as well as a leading practitioner.
[edit] Notable Latham & Watkins alumni
- Bruce Babbitt, former Governor of Arizona and U.S. Secretary of the Interior
- Michael Chertoff, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security
- Chris Cox, SEC Chair
- Fred T. Goldberg, Jr. former Partner and Commissioner of Internal Revenue at the IRS
- Carla Anderson Hills, former U.S. Trade Representative and HUD Secretary
- Roderick M. Hills, former SEC Chair
- Reed Hundt, former FCC Chair
- Dana Latham, Commissioner of Internal Revenue from 1958-1961
- Philip Perry, was a partner in the litigation group, now Department of Homeland Security, [4] General Counsel. He is married to Elizabeth Cheney, attorney, diplomat and daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney.
- Bill Wehrum, acting Assistant Administrator, Office of Air & Radiation U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- James J. White, Robert A. Sullivan Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School and author of the most widely recognized treatise Uniform Commercial Code (with Summers).
- Beth Wilkinson - Prosecutor in the Oklahoma City bombing case.
