Fulbright & Jaworski

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Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

Type	Limited liability partnership
Founded	Houston 1919
Headquarters	16 offices worldwide
Key people	Steven Pfeiffer, Chair, Executive Committee
Industry	Law
Products	Legal services
Revenue	N/A
Employees	Over 1,000 Attorneys
Website	www.fulbright.com

The international law firm of Fulbright & Jaworski LLP is one of the largest law firms in the United States with more than 1,000 attorneys in over 50 practice areas. The firm was founded in Houston in 1919 by R. C. Fulbright, an attorney working in railway regulation, and J. H. Crooker, a litigator and former district attorney.

During its first 50 years, the firm’s transportation work included representing the Port of Houston and industries along the Houston Ship Channel. Fulbright has also represented clients in the energy and financial industries for more than 70 years.

The late Leon Jaworski, a partner in the firm, served as Chief of the Trial Section of the War Crimes Branch of the Judge Advocate General's Department during World War II. He was also Assistant to the Attorney General of the United States in the 1963 civil rights case involving James Meredith’s admission to the University of Mississippi, and then as Watergate Special Prosecutor, 1973-74.

The firm has been involved in the health care industry for more than 60 years. As trustees of the M.D. Anderson Foundation, Fulbright partners, were also instrumental in the establishment of the Texas Medical Center, the largest medical system in the world. The Fulbright & Jaworski health law practice still serves clients in the Texas Medical Center and throughout the country.

Today Fulbright & Jaworski represents businesses, nonprofit organizations and individuals in all types of legal matters. The firm has ten U.S. offices in Houston, New York, Washington, D.C., Austin, Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, St. Louis and San Antonio, and six international offices in Beijing, London, Hong Kong, Munich, Dubai and Riyadh. The international offices are involved in matters involving international commerce, including the European Union and its body of international law; the economic development of emerging countries in Asia and elsewhere; and representation of international clients in the United States.

[edit] Assistance to Guantanamo captives

Attorneys from Fulbright & Jaworski prepared the habeas corpus captives held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.^[1]

Charles "Cully" Stimson, then Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs, stirred controversy when he went on record criticizing the patriotism of law firms that allowed employees to assist Guantanamo captives: "corporate CEOs seeing this should ask firms to choose between lucrative retainers and representing terrorists." ^[2] Stimson's views were widely criticized. The Pentagon disavowed them. And he resigned shortly thereafter.