| Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi LLP | |
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| Headquarters | Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| No. of offices | offices |
| No. of attorneys | 250 attorneys |
| No. of employees | approximately 400 support staff |
| Major practice areas | Litigation, general practice |
| Key people | Martin R. Lueck, chairman of the executive board; Steven A. Schumeister, managing partner |
| Date founded | 1938 |
| Company type | Limited liability partnership |
| Website | |
| www.rkmc.com | |
Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P. is a large U.S. law firm based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. As of 2010, the firm had 250 lawyers in six offices nationwide: Minneapolis; Atlanta, Georgia; Boston, Massachusetts; Los Angeles, California; New York, New York and Naples, Florida.
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Over the years, Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P. has developed a strong litigation practice in intellectual property, mass tort, trademark and advertising disputes, antitrust, Entertainment and Media, and various other areas of business litigation. The firm also has a corporate law practice in strategic IP monetization, mergers and acquisitions, and other types of transactions.
The firm was founded as Robins & Davis in 1938. Select cases the firm has handled are the Hyatt Regency walkway collapse, the fire at the Las Vegas Hilton in 1981 (RKMC represented the victims), and the Dalkon Shield litigation.
Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P. represented the Government of India in the aftermath of the Bhopal Disaster, against Union Carbide. They have also represented E & J Gallo Winery in antitrust matters, and Honeywell, Unocal Corporation, Pitney Bowes, and Intergraph in patent infringement cases. In 1985, RKMC handled the initial public offering of Best Buy.
In 2009, a number of lawyers from the now-defunct firm of Dreier LLP joined the firm.[1]