Ropes and Gray

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Ropes & Gray LLP is a Boston-based law firm with satellite offices in New York, Palo Alto, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. and conference centers in London and Providence, Rhode Island. The firm has over 750 lawyers worldwide and its clients include corporations and financial institutions, government agencies, universities, and health care organizations.

The firm's major practice areas include general corporate law, litigation, antitrust, bankruptcy and business restructuring, international, labor and employment, tax and benefits and government relations. The firm is also a leader in intellectual property law as a result of its 2005 absorption of New York-based Fish & Neave, now the Fish & Neave IP Group of Ropes & Gray.^[1] In 2003, the firm acquired New York City-based private equity law firm Reboul, MacMurray, Hewitt & Maynard.

[edit] Notable attorneys

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Diane Bemus Patrick (Partner) First Lady of Massachusetts (2007-present)

Yochai Benkler (Associate, 1994-1995) Joseph M. Field '55 Professor of Law, Yale Law School

Robert C. Clark (Associate, 1972-1974) Former Dean of the Faculty of Law (1989-2003), and Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor (2003-present), Harvard University

Elliot Richardson (Associate, 1949-1953, 1955-1957; Partner, 1961-1965), Former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare (1970-1973); Secretary of Defense (1973); Attorney General (1973); Ambassador to the Court of St. James (1975-1976) and Secretary of Commerce (1976-1977).

James Vorenberg (Associate, 1954-1960; Partner, 1960-1962) Former Dean of the Faculty of Law, Harvard University (1981-1989)

Roger A. Moore (Associate, 1956-1964, Partner, 1964-1990), Chairman of the Board, National Review (1960-1990), Chief Legal Advisor, Presidential Campaign of Barry Goldwater (1964), General Counsel of the Republican National Committee (1981-1989)