Davis Wright Tremaine

Davis Wright Tremaine
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
Davis Wright Tremaine
Headquarters Seattle, Washington
No. of offices 9
No. of attorneys 519 (2010)
Major practice areas Full-service
Date founded 1908
Company type LLP
Website
www.dwt.com

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP is a national business and litigation law firm representing clients in the United States and in China. In 2008, the National Law Journal ranked the firm 98th largest in the United States based on attorney headcount. In 2008 (the most recent data available), Davis Wright Tremaine ranked No. 109 by gross revenue on the AmLaw 200.[1]

Former Washington governor Gary Locke was one notable lawyer with Davis Wright Tremaine; Locke is currently the U.S. Ambassador to China.

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History

  • 1908: Wright & Kent established in Seattle
  • 1910-1964: The firm changes its name several times, primarily to reflect the addition of new principals
  • 1969: Now known as Wright, Simon, Todd & Schmechel, the firm merges with Howe, Davis, Riese & Jones (founded in 1914) and becomes Davis, Wright, Todd, Riese & Jones.
  • 1980: Anchorage, Alaska, office opens
  • 1981: Washington, D.C., office opens
  • 1982: Bellevue, Wash., office opens
  • 1985: The firm becomes known as Davis Wright & Jones
  • 1989: Los Angeles, Calif., office opens
  • 1990: Davis Wright & Jones merges with the Portland, Ore., firm Ragan, Tremaine, Krieger, Schmeer & Neill and becomes Davis Wright Tremaine
  • 1990-1993: The firm opens offices in Boise, Idaho, Honolulu, Hawaii, and San Francisco, Calif.
  • 1993: Davis Wright Tremaine becomes the first U.S. law firm to gain legal authority to open an office in Shanghai, China; office opens in 1994
  • 1997: Charlotte, N.C., office opens
  • 1998: New York, N.Y., office opens
  • 2000: Boise office closes
  • 2001: Honolulu and Charlotte offices close
  • 2006: Davis Wright Tremaine merges with the Washington D.C.-based law firm Cole, Raywid and Braverman
  • 2007: The San Francisco office merges with the firm Parsons, Hsue and deRuntz
  • 2008: Davis Wright Tremaine hires more than 20 attorneys from the former Heller Ehrman LLP.

Partnerships

In 2008, Davis Wright joined with the Sydney, Australia-based Pacific Legal Network to form DWT Pacific, a collaboration that provides legal and business advice to companies around the Pacific Rim.

In addition, Davis Wright is a member firm of Lex Mundi.

Assistance to Guantanamo captives

Davis Wright Tremaine partners Bud Walsh and Rick Cys prepared the habeas corpus petition for Abdul Haleem, one of the captives held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.[2]

Charles "Cully" Stimson, then Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs, stirred controversy when he went on record criticizing the patriotism of law firms that allowed employees to assist Guantanamo captives: "corporate CEOs seeing this should ask firms to choose between lucrative retainers and representing terrorists." [3] Stimson's views were widely criticized; the Pentagon disavowed them, and Stimson resigned shortly thereafter.

Offices

Davis Wright's largest office is headquartered in Seattle, Wash.

Blogs maintained by Davis Wright Tremaine attorneys

References

  1. ^ The AmLaw 200 Gross Revenue Chart
  2. ^ "Our 2005 pro bono Portfolio: Pro bono cases that span legal issues and human concerns". Davis Wright Tremaine. Summer 2006. Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. http://web.archive.org/web/20070928003605/http://www.dwt.com/pro_bono/2005_ProBonoReport.pdf#page=10. Retrieved 2008-01-19. 
  3. ^ Lewis, Neil (2007-01-13). "Official attacks top law firms over detainees". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/13/washington/13gitmo.html. Retrieved 2007-01-17. 

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