Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan

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Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan logo.svg
Headquarters TCW Tower
Los Angeles, California
No. of offices35
No. of attorneys1,000+ [1]
Major practice areasLitigation only
Key people John Quinn
RevenueIncrease2.svg $1.25 billion (2019) [2]
Date foundedJanuary 1, 1986;38 years ago (1986-01-01)
Founder John B. Quinn, Eric Emanuel, David Quinto, Phyllis Kupferstein
Company type Limited liability partnership
Website Quinn Emanuel Trial Lawyers

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP is an American white shoe law firm [3] [4] headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The firm employs approximately 1,000 attorneys throughout 35 offices around the world. [1] [5]

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History

The firm was established in 1986 [6] [7] by John B. Quinn, Eric Emanuel, David Quinto, and Phyllis Kupferstein, with the purpose of being a litigation-only firm. In 1988, A. William "Bill" Urquhart decided to join the two-year-old firm, which became Quinn Emanuel & Urquhart, [8] and soon later Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Oliver with the addition of Dale Hugh Oliver. [9] Another name partner George Hedges was hired in 1998 to increase the firm's Hollywood presence, and the firm was known as Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges for over a decade. [10]

Part of the firm's self-image is its lack of a formal dress code. This casual self-image extends into the corporate structure of the firm, which eschews any formal management committees, other than an advisory committee for the evaluation of contingency fee cases. About 35 percent of Quinn attorneys went to Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Chicago, New York University, or Columbia law schools. [11]

Quinn Emanuel is the first AmLaw 100 firm to have a female name partner. [12] [13] The firm changed its name in March 2010 to include Kathleen Sullivan, former Dean of Stanford Law School, who heads the firm's appellate practice. [14] [15] [16]

In 2014, the firm was the subject of a Freedom of Information Act request by Microsoft, in connection with a contract it had supposedly signed with the IRS. [17]

Intellectual property litigation is the firm’s largest practice area and the firm currently has over 200 lawyers who litigate IP cases. [18] Quinn Emanuel represented the Winklevoss twins' social network, ConnectU, in its lawsuit that accused Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg of stealing ideas for his own social network. The parties reached a confidential settlement, yet Quinn Emanuel later revealed the confidential settlement amount of $65 million in a firm advertisement. [19]

International expansion and offices

Beginning in 2007, Quinn Emanuel expanded internationally by opening its first foreign office in Tokyo. A year later, the firm expanded to London, then Chicago in 2009, Mannheim, Germany in 2010, Moscow in 2011, and Hamburg in 2012. [20] On September 1, 2011, Washington, D.C.'s Legal Times Blog announced that the firm was opening its first office in the nation's capital. In 2013, the firm opened offices in Paris, Munich, Hong Kong, and Sydney, and, in 2014, it opened offices in Brussels and Houston office. LegalWeek reported that Quinn Emanuel opened an office in Seattle in 2015. [21] Other offices of the firm are located in Atlanta, Beijing, New York City, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Stuttgart, Perth, Shanghai and Zürich. [22] [5]

Recognition and rankings

The American Lawyer ranked the firm "Top IP Litigation Department of the Year" in 2010 and one of the top six Litigation Departments in the U.S. [23] In 2012, The American Lawyer recognized the firm as having one of the top three IP Litigation Departments in the country [24] In 2016, The American Lawyer ranked the firm one of the top six Litigation Departments in the U.S. [25] Chambers and Partners recognized John B. Quinn as "one of the best trial lawyers in California." [26] [ permanent dead link ] In 2016, Chambers and Partners also ranked Quinn Emanuel among the top tiers for the following categories: Intellectual Property: Patent, Trademark, Copyright & Trade Secrets; Litigation: General Commercial, Trial Lawyers and White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations; Media and Entertainment; Appellate Law; Bankruptcy and Restructuring; Sports Law; and Insurance. [27] [ permanent dead link ]

Outside the Washington, D.C. offices of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP. Quinn Emanuel DC office by David Lat.jpg
Outside the Washington, D.C. offices of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP.

In the past, Quinn Emanuel appeared within the top three of The American Lawyer's annual listing of highest profits per partner. In 2010, Quinn Emanuel posted profits per partner of $3.6 million, ranking number two in the United States. [28] In 2011, profits per partner rose to $4.1 million [29] and profit per equity partner had been the second highest in the world. [30] [31] [ permanent dead link ] [32] [33] [34] [35] In the subsequent four years, Quinn Emanuel has been second in profits per partner, with 2014 rising to $4.925 million. [36] The American Lawyer also ranked the firm first in profit margin in 2014. [36]

In Vault.com's specialty rankings of 2012, Quinn Emanuel ranked 1st in general commercial litigation and 5th in intellectual property litigation. [37] In January 2011, Law360 awarded Quinn Emanuel the "Insurance Group of the Year" award. [38] [ permanent dead link ] In June 2011, the British legal publication, The Lawyer awarded Quinn Emanuel's London office "International Law Firm of the Year." [39] [ permanent dead link ] In 2011 for the second year in a row, The Financial Times named Quinn Emanuel a "Top Innovative Firm of the Year." [40] In October 2013, Quinn Emanuel was named one of the Most Feared Plaintiffs Firms by Law360. [41] In 2012 and 2014, [42] [ permanent dead link ]Legal Business named the firm "US Law Firm of the Year." [43] In January 2014, Law360 awarded Quinn Emanuel "Practice Group of the Year" in the following categories: Appellate, IP, Banking, Class Action, and Insurance. [44]

In 2015, Law360 awarded Quinn Emanuel "Practice Group of the Year" in the following categories: Appellate, Banking, Class Action, Product Liability and White Collar. [45] The following year, Law360 once again awarded Quinn Emanuel "Practice Group of the Year" in the following categories: Banking, Intellectual Property, and White Collar. [46] Since 2010, Quinn Emanuel has been recognized on BTI Consulting Group's "Fearsome Foursome" list of law firms most feared by in-house company lawyers. [47] [48] The firm ranked third among the most feared for 2019 by BTI Consulting Group. [49]

Notable attorneys

Notable alumni

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