Taft Stettinius & Hollister, commonly known as "Taft", is an American, AmLaw100[2] law firm founded in 1885 with offices in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton and Delaware, Ohio; Chicago, Illinois; Colorado Springs and Denver, Colorado; Detroit, Michigan; Indianapolis, Indiana; Covington, Kentucky; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Phoenix, Arizona; and Washington, D.C.[3] The firm has smaller, specialty offices in Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Aspen and Steamboat Springs, Colorado; and Naples, Stuart, and West Palm Beach, Florida.[4]
Taft traces its roots back to 1885 when Judge William Worthington and Edward W. Strong founded Worthington & Strong. John L. Stettinius and John B. Hollister joined the firm after its founding; at this point, the firm became known as Worthington, Strong, Stettinius & Hollister.
In January 1923, Judge Worthington died. In the following year, a young firm headed by Robert A. Taft and Charles P. Taft II, sons of former President William Howard Taft, joined the older firm to become Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP.[5]
More recently, the firm is known for its work representing West Virginians in the environmental litigation against DuPont beginning in the 1990s,[10] which was the subject of the 2019 film Dark Waters.
Since the 1980s, the firm's expansion beyond Cincinnati has been accomplished with the aid of strategic mergers with local firms with its various branch offices, including Kelley, McCann, and Livingston of Cleveland in 2001,[11] Sommer Barnard of Indianapolis in 2008,[12] Kahn Kleinman of Cleveland in 2008,[13] Chester, Wilcox, and Saxbe of Columbus in 2012,[14] and Shefsky and Froelich of Chicago in 2014.[15]
On August 29, 2019, partners at Briggs & Morgan of Minneapolis voted to merge with Taft. The merger became effective January 1, 2020.[16] In February 2021, Taft opened an office in Washington, D.C.[17] In December 2022, it opened an office in Detroit, Michigan through a merger with Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss.[18]
On Jan. 1, 2025, Taft completed its merger with the Denver law firm, Sherman & Howard L.L.C., effectively expanding into the Mountain West region.[19] The firm merged with Mrachek Law and expanded into Southeast Florida, effective June 30, 2025.[20]
Taft has grown revenue by approximately 440% since Jan. 1, 2017.[21]
Practice areas
The firm's practice areas include business and finance, business restructuring, bankruptcy and creditor rights, domestic relations, employment, environmental, gaming, government contracts, health and life sciences, higher education, intellectual property, labor relations, litigation, pharmaceutical and life sciences litigation, private client, public finance, real estate, tax, technology services and more.[22] Taft employs over 1,100 attorneys.[23]
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