Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP (known as WilmerHale ) is a large American law firm with offices throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. It was created in 2004, through the merger of Boston-based companies, Hale and Dorr and the Washington-based company, Wilmer Cutler & Pickering; and employs over 1,000 lawyers around the world. The company ranks as one of the most prestigious "BigLaw" companies in the United States as well as one of America's most selective companies to graduate law students, particularly its offices in Washington and Boston. Robert Mueller was a partner at Washington WilmerHale's office before being hired as Special Adviser for investigations into Russian interference in the US presidential election. Other lawyers at WilmerHale include Seth Waxman, former US Attorney General; Ken Salazar, former US Senator from Colorado and US Secretary of State; and Jamie Gorelick, former US Deputy Attorney General,
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Hale dan Dorr, 1918-2004
Hale and Dorr were founded in Boston in 1918 by Richard Hale, Dudley Huntington Dorr, Frank Grinnell, Roger Swaim and John Maguire. Reginald Heber Smith, author of Justice and the Poor's seminal work and pioneer in the American legal aid movement, joined the company in 1919 and served as a managing partner for thirty years. Hale and Dorr gained national recognition in 1954 when the Joseph Welch couple, assisted by James St. James's partners Clair and John Kimball, Jr., represented the US Army pro bono during the historic Army-McCarthy hearings. In 1974, James D. St. Clair represents President Richard Nixon before the United States Supreme Court in USA v. Nixon . In 1988, partner Paul Brountas led the Massachusetts Governor's presidential campaign Michael Dukakis, and in 1990, senior partner William Weld was elected governor. The company has a long and mutually beneficial relationship with the nearby Harvard Law School, the alma mater of more than one-fifth of current Wilmer Hale lawyers, and the home of the Wilmer Hale Law Services Center.
In 1988, the law firm established a subsidiary as a registered investment advisor. Originally known as Haldor Investment Advisor, L.P. , and then Hale Dorr Wealth Advisers . In 2008 Hale Dorr Wealth Advisor became Silver Bridge .
Wilmer, Cutler & amp; Pickering, 1962-2004
Wilmer, Cutler & amp; Pickering was founded in Washington in 1962 by former lawyer Cravath, Lloyd Cutler and John Pickering, along with senior lawyer, Richard H. Wilmer. Cutler, who later served as White House Adviser for President Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, set up a Law Enforcement Committee on Civil Rights in 1962, and served on his executive committee until 1987.
In the 1980s, Cutler led the establishment of Legal Services and Legal Education of South Africa, to assist South African lawyers struggling to apply the rule of law during apartheid. From 1981 to 1993, partner C. Boyden Gray left the company to serve as White House Counsel for Vice President and President George H. W. Bush. In 2003, partner Jamie Gorelick began serving as a member of the 9/11 Commission.
Combined company, 2004-present
The two companies merged to form Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr in 2004.
In 2010, the law firm relocated its administrative support base to a new campus in Dayton, Ohio for trying to streamline internal business operations in many of its offices. The office houses more than 200 employees from existing Wilmer Hale offices and new employees from the Dayton area. Individuals at the Business Services Center include administrative support staff, bringing together services such as finance, human resources, information technology services, operations, document review and management, and practice management, which will provide increased efficiency for administrative and corporate teams, and reduce operational costs. significant.
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Reputation
WilmerHale has been consistently ranked as one of the most prestigious law firms in America. Thus, WilmerHale is one of the most competitive law firms for incoming colleagues, who usually come from top-ranked law schools, graduate in or near the top classes, and serve in legal or other journals reviews. Yale Law, Harvard Law, and Stanford Law provide the most association of US law schools. Many of WilmerHale's partners have completed federal administration work, either in US District Court or US Court of Appeals, and the firm provides $ 50,000 to $ 75,000 bonuses after completing the administrative work.
WilmerHale has a top 20 ranking in the popular Vault "prestige" ratings of hundreds of American law firms and on the American Lawyer A-List of twenty leading law firms in the country based on per lawyers' incomes, pro bono jobs , association satisfaction, and diversity. It ranks as one of the "Best Law Firms to Work," one of the law firms with "The Best Compensation Package," and one of the law firms with "The Best Culture." According to a study examining political donations by large white shoe companies, WilmerHale is ranked the most liberal of the twenty of the country's most prestigious law firms.
Client
Civil Action
In the late 1980s, Hale and Dorr partnered with Jerome Facher to represent Beatrice Foods in a lawsuit by eight families from Woburn, Massachusetts who claimed that Beatrice, along with WR Grace, had polluted the city's water supply, resulting in an increase in the number of leukemia cases and system disturbances immune. The case was immortalized in the book A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr, and in the film of the same name starring Robert Duvall as Facher and John Travolta as plaintiff lawyer Jan Schlichtmann. After further discovery, the EPA took the case and W.R. Grace was successfully indicted for making a false statement. Both W. R. Grace and Beatrice Foods paid a total of $ 64.9 million to clean up contaminated sites in Woburn, Massachusetts.
Enron and WorldCom Reports
After news articles raised concerns about the transactions between Enron and his CFO, Andy Fastow, a lawyer from Wilmer Cutler & Pickering represents the special investigative committee of Enron's board of directors in an internal investigation into the transaction. The resulting report, known as the "Power Report," lays out the facts that have been predicated for much of Enron's public discussion ever since.
Similarly, after WorldCom's announcement that it must restate its financial statements, the company represents a special investigative committee of the WorldCom board of directors in conducting internal investigations into accounting irregularities. The investigation resulted in a widely written report detailing various accounting issues as well as the roles of management and the board of directors.
Another well-known and controversial client
In 1986, Wilmer, Cutler & amp; Pickering represents corporate robber Ivan Boesky in the Ministry of Justice and SEC profiles, as well as some classroom action based on his participation in insider trading violations.
Wilmer, Cutler & amp; Pickering represents Swiss banks accused of profiting from the Holocaust in their settlement negotiations with plaintiffs. The company also represents Siemens AG, Krupp AG, and other German companies accused of exploiting forced labor during the Nazi era.
Since 2005, Wilmer Hale has represented Senator William Frist in connection with the SEC's trade inquiry within the SEC.
Wilmer Hale was hired to represent PepsiCo in a SEC investigation related to the departure of PepsiCo's general adviser, Maura Smith. In the course of this representative, Wilmer Hale's lawyer accidentally sent an e-mail a secret law memorandum to a Wall Street Journal reporter as part of an internal communication to another lawyer dealing with the issue, which made some details of public investigation.
Pro bono
Both Hale and Dorr and Wilmer, Cutler & amp; Pickering has a long history of engagement in pro bono work. Wilmer Hale has been ranked at or near the top of the American lawyer pro bono since the merger. In recent years, the company has been involved in some high profile cases.
Guantanamo Controversy
A team of lawyers Wilmer Hale represents "Algeria Six", a group of people suspected of planning to attack the US embassy in Bosnia and who is currently held at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.
In 2006, lawyer Melissa Hoffer, then part of the team with WilmerHale, delivered a speech at Caen, France, critical of US prison policy. Other Wilmer Hale lawyers who participated in the case included Stephen Oleskey, and Rob Kirsch.
In January 2007, Cully Stimson, deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainees, criticized WilmerHale and other major law firms for representing "terrorists who badly hit their bottom line in 2001," and questioned whether the work actually done pro bono or may actually receive funding from shadow sources. In the Wall Street Journal editorial who criticized Stimson, professor of Harvard Law School (and former US General Attorney under President Reagan) Charles Fried wrote:
In December 2007, Seth Waxman made an oral argument to the Supreme Court at Boumediene v. Bush who upheld the right of habeas corpus for prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.
Attorneys and lawyers
Leading lawyers and lawyers, past and present:
References
External links
- Wilmer Hale
- Hale Wilmer History
- "Long, Long-Term Firm Name Law Growing Short and Fast", from The Boston Globe
- "WilmerHale: A Merger's Tale", from Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly
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