| Source | Wikipedia |
| Curator | Victoria Stuart |
| Date | 2021-04-18 |
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| Editorial practice | Refer here |
| Summary | DLA Piper is a multinational law firm with offices in more than 40 countries throughout the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. |
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| Name | DLA Piper |
| Founded | First parent firm founded 1764; current organization dates to 2005 (by merger) |
| Employees | ~4200 attorneys |
| Major practice areas | Arbitration | Banking | Competition and Trade | Corporate Crime | Corporate Finance | Employment | Energy | Government Affairs | Hospitality and Leisure | Insurance | Intellectual Property | Litigation | Mergers and Acquisitions | Pensions | Private Equity | Real Estate | Restructuring | Securities | Tax | Technology |
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| Revenue | US$2.48 billion (2014) |
| Profit per equity partner | US$1.490 million (2014) |
| Company type | Swiss Verein |
| Website | DLAPiper.com |
DLA Piper is a multinational law firm with offices in more than 40 countries throughout the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. In 2014, DLA Piper had total revenues of US$2.48 billion and average profit per equity partner of US$1.490 million, and was the third largest law firm in the United States as measured by revenue.
DLA Piper was formed, in January 2005, by a merger between three law firms: San Diego-based Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich LLP, Baltimore-based Piper Rudnick LLP and United Kingdom-based DLA LLP. DLA Piper is composed of two partnerships, the United Kingdom-based DLA Piper International LLP and the United States-based DLA Piper LLP (US). The two partnerships share a single global board and are structured as a Swiss Verein.
"... The [Swiss Verein] association can also be used as a legal form for a business organization consisting of a number of independent offices, each of which has limited liability vis-à-vis the others. The form is often used by multinational professional firms so they can operate globally under one brand whilst maintaining separate profit pools (and ring-fencing liability) in each country in which they operate. One advantage to the Verein structure is that because control of the firm is decentralized, offices are only bound by regulators in their country. For instance, non-US offices of accounting firms in a Verein structure are not bound by Securities and Exchange Commission subpoenas from the United States. ..." [Comment, Persagen, 2021-04-18. Source: Wikipedia]
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DLA Piper is a polycentric firm with over 80 offices in more than 40 countries across the Americas, Asia Pacific, Australasia, Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
DLA Piper was the twelfth-largest donor to President Barack Obama's 2012 re-election campaign. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, DLA Piper was one of the top law firms contributing to federal candidates during the 2012 election cycle, donating $2.19 million, 73% to Democrats. By comparison, during that same period Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld donated $2.56 million, 66% to Democrats, while oil conglomerate ExxonMobil donated $2.66 million, 88% to Republicans. Since 1990, DLA Piper has contributed $16.97 million to federal campaigns, and spent over $1 million on lobbying since 2002.
As of 2014 DLA Piper was the fifth largest donor to potential presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
In 2010, DLA Piper represented Paul Ceglia in his claim that he hired Mark Zuckerberg to create a website that became Facebook and that under the agreement, Ceglia was entitled to ownership of 84 percent of Facebook, then worth multiple billions of dollars. Zuckerberg and Facebook responded that Ceglia had hired Zuckerberg to work on an unrelated site, but Ceglia had fraudulently altered that contract to make it appear to cover Facebook. A DLA Piper attorney told the Wall Street Journal that although he had not seen the original document, he had "absolutely 100% confidence that Mr. Ceglia's agreement is authentic." Ceglia's document was later, in fact, found to be fraudulent and in 2014, Facebook and Zuckerberg sued DLA Piper and others, claiming Ceglia's lawyers "knew or should have known that the initial lawsuit was a fraud." The suit was later dismissed.
José María Aznar, former Prime Minister of Spain, has been Senior Adviser to DLA Piper's Global Board since 2013
James Blanchard, former Governor of Michigan and former U.S. Ambassador to Canada, has been partner since 1996
Michael Castle, former Governor of Delaware, has been a partner at DLA Piper since 2011.
Saxby Chambliss, former US Senator, has been partner since 2015
Bart Chilton, former US Commodity Futures Trading Commissioner, was senior policy adviser from 2014 to 2017
Timothy Clement-Jones, Baron Clement-Jones, Liberal Democrat Peer and former spokesman for the Creative Industries in the House of Lords
Douglas Emhoff, attorney, Second Gentleman of the United States and spouse of Vice President Kamala Harris
Sir Nigel Knowles was managing partner from 1996 to 2015 and global co-chairman from 2015 to 2016.
Ray LaHood, former secretary of the Department of Transportation, has been Senior Policy Adviser since 2014
Former US Senator George Mitchell was DLA Piper's chairman between 2003 and 2009 As of 2012, he is chairman emeritus.
Dick Armey, former U.S. Representative from Texas' 26th congressional district (1985-2003) and House Majority Leader (1995-2003)
Rudi M. Brewster, former judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California
Peter Bynoe, attorney and businessman who co-owned the Denver Nuggets
Tom Daschle, former US Senator and US Senate Majority Leader,; policy adviser at DLA Piper, from December 2009 to October 2014.
Steven J. Davis, earth system scientist at the University of California, Irvine
Jared Genser, international human rights attorney
Miriam González Durántez, partner at DLA Piper, from 2006 to 2011; spouse of former deputy prime minister of the United Kingdom, Nick Clegg
A. B. Krongard, former executive director of the Central Intelligence Agency and former chairman and CEO of Alex. Brown & Sons
Jonathan Lisle, British D.J.
Mel Martinez, partner and lobbyist for DLA Piper, after retiring as a U.S. Senator from Florida, during 2009 to 2010; Florida chairman for J.P. Morgan Chase & Co; co-chair of the Bipartisan Policy Center
Harry Cummings McPherson Jr., author, attorney and policymaker who served as counsel and special counsel to President Lyndon B. Johnson, from 1965 to 1969, and as his chief speechwriter, from 1966 to 1969
Paul Victor Niemeyer, judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and a former judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland
Thomas C. Wheeler, judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims
[NPR.org, 2021-04-16] A 'Worst Nightmare' Cyberattack: The Untold Story Of The SolarWinds Hack
... SolarWinds' chief security officer, Tim Brown, called Ron Plesco, a lawyer at the firm DLA Piper, and told him what had happened.
One of the first things companies tend to do after cyberattacks is hire lawyers, and they put them in charge of the investigation. They do this for a specific reason - it means everything they find is protected by attorney-client privilege and typically is not discoverable in court.
Ron Plesco, who has made cybercrimes a specialty of his practice, knew that once the story broke it would be saying "to the world that, ready, set, go, come after it," Plesco said. "So that puts you on an accelerated timeline on two fronts: Figure out what happened if you can and get a fix out as soon as possible."
DLA Piper worked with the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to craft a statement that went out on 2020-12-13.
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