Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP is a Boston-based law firm founded in 1899. It is currently one of the largest law firms in the Greater Boston market, and one of the old-line Boston Brahmin firms which has previously been described by The New York Times as having a reputation for being "stuffy."[1] Legal press reports suggest that the addition of 10 partners and their team of associates from the defunct Boston law firm Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault in 2005 who specialized in technology, venture capital and private equity infused Choate with new blood and new sociability.[2] Currently the firm employs 200 attorneys and 250 staff members all working out of a single Boston office at Two International Place. Choate Hall & Stewart is well regarded in the Boston legal community and ranked in legal publications in a number of substantive areas such as mergers and acquisitions, private equity, antitrust, intellectual property prosecution and litigation, general commercial litigation, healthcare and bankruptcy law.[3]