K&L Gates

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K&L Gates
K&L Gates
Headquarters K&L Gates Center
Pittsburgh[1]
No. of offices 45
No. of attorneys Over 2000
Major practice areas General practice
Key people Peter Kalis (chairman)
Date founded 1883 (Seattle, U.S.A.)
Company type Limited Liability Partnership
Website
www.klgates.com

K&L Gates LLP is a US-based international law firm with offices in Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, South America, and the United States.[2] Measured by headcount, it is the 8th largest law firm in the United States [3] and the 11th largest among law firms worldwide.[4] The firm delivers legal services at both an individual office level and through nine broad firmwide practice areas: Corporate and Transactional; Energy, Infrastructure and Resources; Finance; Financial Services; Intellectual Property; Labor, Employment and Workplace Safety; Litigation and Dispute Resolution; Real Estate; and Regulatory and Policy, each of which also include a number of subject matter and industry-based practice groups.[5]

Corporate governance

As of 2012, the chairman and global managing partner of the firm is Peter Kalis.[6] He has held that position since 1997.[7] In 2013, Kalis was named both one of the top legal innovators of the past 50 years by The American Lawyer magazine [8] and among the legal industry’s most innovative and groundbreaking thinkers on The National Law Journal’s inaugural list of “Top 50 Legal Business Trailblazers & Pioneers”[9]

History

  • 1883: Preston Gates & Ellis is founded in Seattle,[10] emerging out of the private law offices of Harold Preston.
  • 1858: London-based Nicholson Graham & Jones Ltd is founded
  • 1946: Pittsburgh-based Kirkpatrick & Lockhart is founded
  • 2005: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart and Nicholson Graham merge to become Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham
  • 2007: On January 1, K&L Gates is formed in a merger between Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham and Preston Gates & Ellis to form Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis.[11] The name was later shortened to K&L Gates.
  • 2008: In January, K&L Gates combined with Hughes & Luce, a Dallas-based firm of 150 attorneys with offices in Austin, Dallas, and Fort Worth
  • 2008: In July K&L Gates combined with Kennedy Covington Lobdell & Hickman LLP, a North Carolina-based firm of 200 attorneys with offices in Charlotte, Raleigh, and Research Triangle Park.[12]
  • March 1, 2009: K&L Gates merged with Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, a Chicago-based firm with approximately 215 attorneys with offices in Chicago, San Diego and Washington, D.C.
  • 2013: K&L Gates combined with Australian national firm Middletons with offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, and Brisbane

Notable lawyers and alumni

References

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  5. http://www.klgates.com/aboutus/xpqGC.aspx?xpST=AboutUsGeneral&key=ec9cb923-6322-4cc9-838c-bda359f6626e&activeEntry=7cc28745-1d6a-44fc-8d41-33be565591ac
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  7. "Kalis elected to fifth terms as head of K&L Gates," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sept. 25, 2012, http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/business/news/kalis-elected-to-fifth-terms-as-head-of-kl-gates-654825/
  8. http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/news/2013/07/30/peter-kalis-among-top-50-innovators.html
  9. http://pdfserver.amlaw.com/nlj/LBTP2013Web.pdf
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  12. Press release from K&L Gates
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  14. K&L Gates - People - Dick Thornburgh
  15. Testimony of Dick Thornburgh, Former Attorney General of the United States, Counsel, K&L Gates LLP
  16. Congress is on a health-reform path that will raise premiums
  17. K&L Gates - People - K&L Gates
  18. http://www.americanlawyer.com/id=1202667573523/Lifetime-Achiever-Charles-Queenan-Jr-
  19. http://support.wilsoncenter.org/page.aspx?pid=429
  20. ABA Journal ABA President to Replace Magowan as Managing Partner of San Francisco Giants
  21. K&L Gates - People - Michael S. Greco
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