DLA Piper

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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. (Financial figures for 2005 ranked the firm second to Clifford Chance in worldwide turnover with over $1.5 billion in revenue).[1]

DLA Piper is a legal services organisation whose members and affiliates are separate and distinct legal entities.[2] Together, the organization boasts more than 3,200 lawyers in over 24 countries and 63 cities throughout the world.

The firm runs a lobbying arm from London called Global Government Relations.

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).

Refusal to join the Association of Professional Political Consultants

Following a committee inquiry chaired by Labour MP Tony Wright, it emerged that DLA Piper was one of three agencies refusing to join the APPC. Tim Clement-Jones, Liberal Democrat spokesman on culture and sport in the House of Lords, is founder and chairman of the lobbying arm of the firm, Global Government Relations (GGR). This creates - in the eyes of the APPC - a conflict of interests, as members cannot employ sitting peers or MPs. GGR head of media Eben Black, instead of Clement-Jones, was due to appear before the committee.[3]

Lobbying for Turkey

On 10 October 2007, the US House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs passed Resolution 106, which accuses the Turkish rulers in 1915 of genocide. There was an intensive on behalf of the Turkish government to sway the committee, described by Ali H. Aslan as follows:

Both the Turkish and the US governments strongly opposed the resolution and were joined by DLA Piper, the Livingstone Group, public relations company Fleishman-Hillard and other companies that officially conducted lobbying activities on behalf of Turkey as well as by big corporations that have sizable commercial deals with Turkey such as Boeing and BP.[4]

People[5]

Global

Co-Chairmen

  • Tony Angel, United Kingdom. Former managing partner at Linklaters, 1998–2007, executive managing director and head of EMEA at Standard & Poor's, where he was a member of the global operating committee and helped guide the credit rating agency through the intense scrutiny that accompanied the global credit crisis.
  • Lee Miller, United States. Former chairman of Rudnick & Wolfe before its merge with Piper & Marbury in 1999.[6]

Joint Co-CEOs

Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific

Co-Managing Directors, Groups and Sectors

Managing Director, Europe and Africa

Managing Director, Europe and Middle East

Chief Operating Officer

General Counsel, Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific=

Americas

Co-Chairmen

Co-Managing Partners

Chairmen Emeritus

  • Francis Burch Jr., United States. Former chairman of Piper & Marbury before its merge with Rudnick & Wolfe in 1999.[6]
  • George Mitchell, United States. Chaired the peace negotiations which led to the 1998 Belfast Peace Agreement and former US special envoy for Middle East Peace from January 2009 to May 2011 and US senator 1980-1989.

Chief Operating Officer

General Counsel

Former Staff

Affiliations

See Also

Resources, References and Contact

References

  1. ↑ Lorraine Cushnie, DLA Piper challenges the global giants as revenues soar to £850m, The Lawyer, 13 February 2006, accessed 9 June 2011
  2. ↑ [1], DLA Piper website
  3. ↑ Staff writers, "Lobbying inquiry zooms in on APPC non-members", PR Week UK, 21.02.08, accessed 10.09.10
  4. ↑ Ali H. Aslan, How did last-minute hopes turn into disappointment?, Zaman, 10 October 2007.
  5. ↑ Firm Leadership DLA Piper, undated, accessed 9 October 2014
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Sean Somerville Piper, Rudnick join ranks of largest U.S. law firms Baltimore Sun, 2 November 1999, accessed 9 October 2014
  7. ↑ Advisory Committee on Trade Policy and Negotiations Advisory Committee Lists Accessed 21st January 2008
  8. ↑ Rt Hon Lord Warner, Rt Hon Richard Caborn MP and MR Stephen Haddrill Parliament Publications, 8 May 2008, 9 October 2014
  9. ↑ Nuclear Industry Association, Our Members, undated, accessed 5 September 2012
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