Bingham McCutchen

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Bingham McCutchen LLP

Headquarters	Boston, Massachusetts
No. of Offices	14
No. of Attorneys	approximately 1,000
No. of Employees	approximately 870^[1]
Major Practice Areas	Corporate finance, government affairs
Key People	Jay S. Zimmerman (Chairman)^[1]
Date Founded	1891^[2]
Company Type	Limited Liability Partnership
Website	Bingham.com

Bingham McCutchen LLP is an international law firm with approximately 1,000 attorneys in eleven US offices and three international offices^[3]. It represents clients in corporate litigation, financing and securities, government affairs and a wide variety of corporate and technology transactions.^[4]

The law firm was named the 94th best company to work for in the 2007 Fortune magazine article, "100 Best Companies to Work For"^[5]. This was the third consecutive year on the list for Bingham McCutchen, ranking 78th in 2005 and 82nd in 2006^[6]. The firm has been awarded similar accolades by the San Francisco Chronicle and Boston Business Journal.^[7]^[8]

Since 1997, the company has experienced sharp growth in the number of attorneys, offices, and revenues by absorbing other law firms.^[2]^[9] Bingham McCutchen has offices in Boston, Hartford, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New York, Orange County, Portland, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Tokyo, Walnut Creek, and Washington, D.C.^[3] Its offices are mainly concentrated in the California and New England areas. It also offers consulting services through regional subsidiaries.^[2]

1 History
2 Notable Mandates
3 Guantanamo captive representation
4 Notable people
5 Offices
6 References
7 External links

[edit] History

In the 1990s, old line Boston-based firm Bingham, Dana & Gould embraced a growth strategy that would transform the firm from a regional heavyweight into a national and then international success story. In 1997, Bingham Dana acquired internationally-focused boutique law firm Marks & Murase with its list of Japanese clients. Bingham Dana opened in New York City with the 25-lawyer team from Marks. Then next outpost was established in Hartford, Connecticut through a merger with 55-lawyer Hebb & Gitlin, a firm that concentrated on international bankruptcy work. In 2001, Bingham Dana bulked up in New York City through merging with Richards & O'Neill, a boutique law firm of 55 attorneys known for its litigation and Japanese practice groups. The next year, in 2002, Bingham Dana merged with San Francisco-based law firm McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen to form 800-lawyer strong Bingham McCutchen. McCutchen Doyle brought 10 offices and a strong litigation and intellectual property focus as well as offices in London, Singapore and on the West Coast. In 2003, the firm expanded in Southern California by merging with corporate boutique Riordan & McKinzie. It also welcomed a group of lawyers in its San Francisco office from disbanding Chicago firm, Altheimer & Gray. In order to build a more sophisticated hedge fund practice, Bingham raided rival Bryan Cave for a team of attorneys who joined the New York office in 2005. Further lateral teams arrived from Morrison & Foerster and DLA Piper. More recently, 2006 saw a merger between Bingham McCutchen and Swindler Berlin, a Washington, D.C.-based firm which brought greater capabilities in the nation's capital as well as a strong regulatory group. Bingham also launched in Hong Kong that same year. In 2007, the firm acquired Los Angeles litigation shop Alschuler Grossman and merged with two Tokyo-based firms to build one of the largest US presences in the Japanese capital.

[edit] Notable Mandates

Stephen M. Ross in his $1.1 billion purchase of 50% of the Miami Dolphins franchise and Dolphin Stadium.
Time, Inc. in successful defense of a libel suit brought by a former bodyguard of Madonna over claims about him in her biography.
Union Bank of California in its merger with Monterey Bay Bank.
AT&T in its $47 billion acquisition by Cingular.

[edit] Guantanamo captive representation

Susan Baker Manning and Sabin Willett both played a lead role in the efforts to provide legal assistance to captives held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.^[10]^[11]^[12]^[13]^[14] Manning and Willett have played roles in the challenges to the procedural flaws in captives Combatant Status Review Tribunals. They have also played a part in the challenges to the extrajudicial detention of captives in American custody in the Bagram Theater detention facility outside of Kabul.