DLA Piper
DLA Piper (known until 4 September 2006 as DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary) is the third largest law firm in the world by number of attorneys after Clifford Chance and Baker & McKenzie. DLA Piper is a legal services organization whose members and affiliates are separate and distinct legal entities.[1]
Together, the organization boasts more than 3,200 lawyers in over 24 countries and 63 cities throughout the world. DLA Piper was formed as a result of the 2005 merger of San Diego-based Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich LLP, London-based DLA LLP (previously Dibb Lupton Alsop), and Piper Rudnick LLP (itself a 1999 merger of Baltimore-based Piper & Marbury and Chicago-based Rudnick & Wolfe). Recent financial figures from The Lawyer rank the firm second to Clifford Chance in worldwide turnover with over $1.5 billion in revenue for 2005.[2]
The firm runs a lobbying arm from London called Global Government Relations
People
The firm is managed globally by three joint chief executive officers: Nigel Knowles, Frank Burch, and Lee Miller. The three were previously the managing partners of legacy firms (DLA, Piper & Marbury, and Rudnick & Wolfe, respectively). The Chairman of the firm's Global Board is former U.S. Democratic Senator George Mitchell, who chaired the peace negotiations which led to the 1998 Belfast Peace Agreement.
In 2007, Jennifer Dunn of DLA Piper is reported to be a member of the Advisory Committee on Trade Policy and Negotiations (ACTPN)[3]
Affiliations
- International Financial Services London - DLA Piper UK LLP is a member
- Atlantic Legal Foundation
- Francis B. Burch, Jr. Co-Chairman, DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary US LLP, Baltimore
- Frank H. Menaker Partner DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary, Senior VP & General Counsel
- Arthur F. Fergenson Partner, DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary US LLP Baltimore, MD
- Heartland Institute - Paul Fisher - Piper, Marbury, Rudnick & Wolfe
- William Cohen The Cohen Group has a strategic alliance with Piper Rudnick
- European Institute (USA) - DLA, Piper Rudnick Gray Cary LLP
- Bioindustry Association, member
