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| Headquarters | Richmond, Virginia |
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| No. of offices | 21 [1] |
| No. of attorneys | 1000+ |
| Major practice areas | General practice |
| Date founded | 1834 |
| Founder | Egbert R. Watson |
| Company type | Limited liability partnership |
| Website | www |
McGuireWoods LLP is a US-based international law firm. Their largest offices are in Richmond, Virginia, Charlotte, North Carolina, and Chicago, Illinois.
McGuireWoods traces its origins to two lawyers, Egbert R. Watson [2] and Murray Mason McGuire. [3] In 1834, Watson opened a law office in Charlottesville, VA. [2] [3] In 1870, he formed a partnership with his son-in-law, George Perkins [2] in what would become Perkins, Battle & Minor.
In 1897, McGuire started practicing law in Richmond, VA. [3] He was joined by John Stewart Bryan in 1898 and the two formed McGuire & Bryan. [3] In the 1960s, the firm became McGuire, Woods, King, Davis & Patterson. [3]
In 1966, Charlottesville’s Battle, Neal, Harris, Minor & Williams merged with Richmond’s McGuire, Woods, King, Davis & Patterson to create McGuire, Woods & Battle. [3] [2] In 1987, the firm merged with Boothe, Prichard & Dudley to create McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe. [2]
In 1991, McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe took over Cable, McDaniel, Bowie & Bond, a Baltimore law firm. [4] After additional mergers, the firm changed its name to McGuireWoods in 2000. [2] [5]
In 1998, the firm established its affiliate McGuireWoods Consulting to provide consulting services in government and public relations. [3] [2]
In 2003, McGuireWoods merged with Chicago firm Ross and Hardies. [6] In 2006, McGuireWoods merged with Chicago-based Gordon & Glickson. [7]
In 2008, the firm merged with Helms Mulliss & Wicker in North Carolina. [8] In 2009, McGuireWoods opened a London office after a merger. [9]
In 2014, McGuireWoods opened its Dallas office. [10] In 2015, the firm entered into an alliance with FuJae Partners, a Shanghai-based law firm [11] and opened a second office in Los Angeles. [12] In 2016, the firm opened an office in San Francisco. [3] [13] As of 2019, the firm has 21 offices worldwide. [1]
In December 2017, Richard Cullen stepped down as chairman of McGuireWoods and partner Jonathan Harmon became the firm’s new chairman. [14] In 2019, Richard Davis was hired as the new chief operating officer. [15]
McGuireWoods was named one of the most innovative law firms in North America by Financial Times in 2018 and 2019. [16] [17]
In June 2020, the Open Technology Fund (OTF) asked McGuireWoods, which had been advising it pro bono, for help in a conflict with the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) and its then-director Michael Pack. McGuireWoods advised it could not help in the case. OTF learned in December 2020 that the reason for the refusal was that McGuireWoods had decided to investigate OTF on behalf of USAGM and Pack instead. [18] The Government Accountability Project, citing records obtained via the Freedom of Information Act, claimed McGuireWoods had billed USAGM $1.625 million at an average rate of $320 an hour after receiving a no-bid contract to investigate OTF as well as Voice of America employees. [19]
In 2022, Trump's Save America political action committee paid McGuireWoods almost $900,000 in legal fees. [20]
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