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The firm is ranked on The National Law Journal's list of the 350 largest law firms in the United States. [5] The firm serves a variety of clients, from Fortune 500 companies [6] to entrepreneurs and government entities. In 2005, the firm launched the CAFA Law Blog, the first blog to focus exclusively on the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005. [7 ...
In 1947, the firm's labor department, led by J. Mack Swigert, was instrumental in helping Robert Taft, who had become a United States Senator, draft and pass the groundbreaking Taft–Hartley Act that regulated labor unions. [5] [6] In the late 1960s-early 1970s, Murray S. Monroe founded the firm's Antitrust practice. [7] [8]
The primary reason for professional liability coverage is that a typical general liability insurance policy will respond only to a bodily injury, property damage, personal injury or advertising injury claim. Other forms of insurance cover employers, public and product liability. However, various professional services and products can give rise ...
The Convention on the Law Applicable to Products Liability is a convention concluded in 1971 within the framework of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH), which governs the law that should be applied to products liability cases. [3] It entered into force in 1973 and as of 2020, 11 countries are party to it. [1]
Directors & Boards magazine ranked Holland & Knight the nation's top law firm for dealing with director liability issues. [20] The firm was named the Law Firm of the Year in the Washington, D.C., area by the Greater Washington Commercial Association of Realtors three times in the past five years. [21] Working Mother magazine and Flex-Time ...
Morgan Lewis was founded in Philadelphia on March 10, 1873, by Civil War veteran Charles Eldridge Morgan, Jr., who later served as the Philadelphia Law Academy's vice president, [5] [6] and Francis Draper Lewis, son of a wholesale dry goods merchant, whose first cousin was William Draper Lewis, [7] the dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
The firm is also known for its business litigation, and has represented clients in many of the precedent-setting Delaware corporate governance cases. [7] The firm placed #41 on The American Lawyer's 2021 AmLaw 200 ranking. In the 2021 Global 200 survey, Wachtell Lipton Rosen Katz ranked as the 50th highest grossing law firm in the world. [1]
In January 2006, Nasharr & Shea LLC, a small banking and real estate firm, merged into the firm, giving Polsinelli an office in Chicago. On February 1, 2009, the 300-attorney Polsinelli firm merged with Shughart Thomson & Kilroy, P.C., a 180-lawyer Kansas City-based, regional law firm with a national trial reputation and a business practice