K&L Gates LLP is an AmLaw 100 law firm based in the United States, with international offices in Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, and South America. Its namesake firms are Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, a Pittsburgh-based firm founded in 1946, and Preston Gates & Ellis, a Seattle firm founded in 1883 whose prominent partners included William H. Gates, Sr., the attorney, philanthropist, and father of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. Kirkpatrick & Lockhart merged with Preston Gates in 2007 to form K&L Gates, LLP.
Locke Lord LLP is an international law firm formed on October 2, 2007, after the combination of Texas-based Locke Liddell & Sapp PLLC and Lord Bissell & Brook LLP, a national law firm headquartered in Chicago. The firm changed its name to Locke Lord LLP on September 27, 2011.
Bracewell LLP is an international law firm based in Houston, Texas, that began in 1945. The firm has over 450 lawyers, and has United States offices in New York City, Washington, D.C., Hartford, San Antonio, Seattle, Dallas and Austin, and overseas offices in Dubai, and London. The firm's areas of specialization include energy, environmental strategies, financial institutions, financial restructuring, government, litigation, private investment funds, technology, and white collar defense.
Harris Beach is a law firm in the U.S. state of New York, founded in 1856. The firm has over 200 lawyers and offices throughout New York, as well as in Newark, New Jersey, and New Haven, Connecticut.
Rebecca Simmons is a Texas attorney and a former special justice of the Supreme Court of Texas. As of 2017, Simmons continued to serve as a visiting judge on both the trial court level and appellate level, and to provide mediation and arbitration services under RebeccaSimmons PLLC.
Milberg LLP is a US plaintiffs' law firm, established in 1965 and based in New York City. It has mounted many class action cases on behalf of investors, and has been recognized as among the leading firms in its field by the National Law Journal, RiskMetrics Group, Securities Class Action Services, and Law360. The firm and some of its partners were charged in 2006 with offering improper inducements to plaintiffs. The case against the firm itself was dismissed in 2008, but that same year four partners pleaded guilty to charges, and many others had already left the firm.
Thelen LLP, formerly known as Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner was a bicoastal American law firm formed by two mergers between California and New York-based law firms. The firm peaked at roughly 600 attorneys in 2006, and had 500 early in 2008, with attorneys with offices in eight cities in the United States, England and China. By the time of its decision to dissolve in late October 2008, it had shrunk to 400 attorneys through layoffs and attrition. Thelen was known for its preeminent construction practice which dates back to the 1930s and the local association between the law firm and contractors and developers of large hydroelectric dam projects. The construction practice offered regulatory, transactional and dispute resolution support. It was also known for its energy expertise, particularly in the electricity regulatory area, as well as for legal advice concerning technology and outsourcing.
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP is a law firm based in Birmingham, Alabama. In addition to its Birmingham office, Bradley also has offices in Charlotte, North Carolina, Houston, Texas, Dallas, Texas, Huntsville, Alabama, Jackson, Mississippi, Montgomery, Alabama, Tampa, Florida, Washington D.C., and Nashville, Tennessee. On December 8, 2008, Bradley announced its merger with Boult Cummings Conners & Berry, PLC, with the combined firm taking the name Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP. The merger became effective on January 1, 2009. The combined firm is listed as one of the National Law Journal's 250 largest American law firms in its NLJ 250. The firm's chairman of the board and managing partner is Jon Skeeters. The combined firm is known for major construction company work in Europe and Asia, for multinational pharmaceutical company work in New York and California, for major insurance and financial services work in Texas, Indiana, and Alabama and for working with national tire manufacturers in Tennessee and Georgia.
Elliott I. Portnoy is an American attorney and the Global chief executive officer of Dentons—a law firm that launched March 28, 2013 with the combination of US/UKMEA firm SNR Denton, Canada's Fraser Milner Casgrain and Europe's Salans, and is now the largest law firm in the world.
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP, commonly referred to as Gordon & Rees, is an American law firm with more than 900 lawyers practicing throughout the United States.
Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP,, is a U.S. law firm headquartered in Chicago with approximately 425 attorneys located in 11 states and London. Founded in 1934, the firm has a national reputation for its insurance industry work, its representation of professionals and law firms, and its closely coordinated business advisory, transactional and litigation services.
Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Aughtry, PC, known as Chamberlain Hrdlicka, is an American law firm founded in Houston, Texas with offices in Atlanta, Houston, Philadelphia, and San Antonio.
Maynard Cooper & Gale is a full service law firm based in Birmingham, AL with offices in New York City, San Francisco, Century City, CA, and Washington D.C., as well as three additional offices in Alabama located in Huntsville, Montgomery, Mobile. Founded in 1984, Maynard Cooper & Gale is one of Alabama's largest law firms with over 270 attorneys. The firm is listed as one of the National Law Journal's 250 Largest American Law Firms in its NLJ 250. Since its inception in 1984, Maynard Cooper & Gale has expanded to be a nationally recognized law firm.
Lindquist & Vennum LLP was a law firm of approximately 170 attorneys that provided corporate finance, transactional and litigation services for clients from offices in Minnesota, Colorado, and South Dakota. The firm was formed in 1968 when Lindquist, Magnuson & Glennon combined with Vennum, Newhall, Ackman & Goetz. As of January 1, 2018, the firm merged with and took the name of Ballard Spahr.
Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c. is a large American law firm founded in 1894. The firm serves as attorneys and business law counselors to public and privately held corporations, financial institutions, family-owned businesses, retirement plans, exempt organizations and individuals.
Developing Unconventional Gas or DUG is a series of annual regional conferences of the Unconventional oil industry. Several notable key note speakers have visited DUG conferences including Leon Panetta at Pittsburgh's in 2014, T. Boone Pickens in 2011 and George W. Bush in 2013.
Acelity L.P. Inc., was a privately held medical device company. It was a non-operating holding company who wholly owned subsidiaries developed advanced wound therapeutics products. The advanced wound therapeutics business was conducted by Kinetic Concepts, Inc. (KCI) and its subsidiaries, including Systagenix.
Goldberg Segalla is a law firm with over 400 lawyers in more than 20 offices located in 11 U.S. states. As of 2019, Goldberg Segalla was the 112th largest law firm headquartered in the U.S. by attorney headcount, according to the National Law Journal's NLJ 500. The data also showed the Goldberg Segalla to be the fastest-growing firm in the top 125 that had not undergone a merger–a fact that speaks to its unique hiring philosophy, the firm noted.
Thomas Patrick Cusick JR, known as Tom Cusick is a businessman, rancher and Texas land developer. After selling his company, Benefit Planners LLP in 2001, Mr. Cusick followed his dream and passion of carrying on a family heritage and purchased Chimney Peak Ranch in Ridgway, Colorado, a 1100 head working cattle operation. That was followed up by developing Estancia at Thunder Valley, over 1000 acres in Boerne, Texas, another dream he had envisioned since his days in high school. In 2011 with long time friend George Strait, they purchased Tapatio Springs Resort and Golf Course located in Boerne, Texas, investing more than four million dollars in renovations on the property and golf course the grand opening was held on November 11, 2011.
