Pillsbury is pleased to announce the addition this month of 13 attorneys, including seven partners – three prominent litigators and four leading government contracts attorneys – …
Pillsbury is an international law firm with offices around the world, and a particular focus on the technology, energy & natural resources, financial services, real estate & construction, and travel & hospitality sectors.
Pillsbury Expands State and Local Tax Practice with 13-Lawyer, Nationwide Team. In a move that further strengthens one of the premier State & Local Tax (SALT) practices in the United States, a team led by two of the country’s leading SALT practitioners—Carley Roberts and Marc Simonetti—have joined Pillsbury.
Mar 06, 2009 · Pillsbury Cuts 55 Attorneys & 100 Staff. By Martha Neil. March 5, 2009, 7:22 pm CST
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No. | Law Firm | Attorneys |
1 | Baker McKenzie LLP | 4719 |
2 | DLA Piper LLP | 3609 |
3 | Norton Rose Fulbright LLP | 3339 |
Rank | Firm | Lawyers |
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1 | Kirkland & Ellis | 2,598 |
2 | Latham & Watkins | 2,720 |
3 | DLA Piper (verein) | 3,894 |
4 | Baker McKenzie (verein) | 4,809 |
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, also known as Pillsbury, is a full-service law firm with a particular focus on the energy, financial services, real estate and technology industries. Based in the world's major financial, technology and energy centers, Pillsbury counsels clients on global business, regulatory and litigation matters.
Pillsbury was involved in the drafting of the 1952 Patent Act, which serves as the basis for patent law today, and launched the first nuclear energy law practice in the U.S. in 1966. In 1968, the firm handled the formation of Intel Corporation, and in 1970, it served as counsel on the first public offering by a member of the New York Stock Exchange. In 1980, Pillsbury advised on the then-largest foreign acquisition of a U.S. bank, and in 1994, the firm registered the first trademark for a dotcom.
Pillsbury managed Chevron's then-record $13.2 billion cash merger with Gulf Oil in 1984 , its 2001 merger with Texaco and its 2005 acquisition of Unocal Corp. Pillsbury is the result of several law firm mergers.
In 2005 Pillsbury Winthrop merged with Shaw Pittman (formerly Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge ), a 300-lawyer Washington, D.C.-based firm working in global sourcing, energy, real estate, technology and communications. Pillsbury was involved in the drafting of the 1952 Patent Act, which serves as the basis for patent law today, ...
In 1980, Pillsbury advised on the then-largest foreign acquisition of a U.S. bank, and in 1994, the firm registered the first trademark for a dotcom. In 2012, the firm entered into merger discussions with Washington, D.C.-based Dickstein Shapiro, but those talks ended by early 2013.
In April 2006, Pillsbury had a round of layoffs. These layoffs were in connection with the merger with Shaw Pitman in April 2005. The layoffs included its unofficial mascot, Martin Macy. Macy, who had started with the firm at the age 17, had been in the San Francisco office for 41 years prior to his dismissal.
Pillsbury offices in Washington, D.C. Predecessor firm Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro opened in San Francisco in 1874, making Pillsbury the oldest "powerhouse" law firm in California. In 1900, Pillsbury incorporated Standard Oil of California —the company would later become Chevron, which has remained one of the firm's longstanding clients.
Together, Roberts and Simonetti have litigated on behalf of clients in more than 25 U.S. jurisdictions.
Added Simonetti: “Over the years, Carley and I have been able to put together a really strong team of lawyers to support our clients. That wasn’t something we were anxious to give up. To be able to keep this whole talented group intact, at a firm that already has an outstanding reputation in our practice area—I can’t imagine a better outcome.”
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP is an international law firm with a particular focus on the technology & media, energy, financial services, and real estate & construction sectors. Recognized as one of the most innovative law firms by Financial Times and one of the top firms for client service by BTI Consulting, Pillsbury and its lawyers are highly regarded for their forward-thinking approach, their enthusiasm for collaborating across ... Read More
Pillsbury has a unique history of deal-making throughout the United States , with leading real estate practices for more than 50 years on the East and West coasts. Because of its size and geographic reach, the firm’s real estate practice group is one of the few national practices capable of handling the full range of assignments, from multi-jurisdictional portfolio transactions to single-asset deals in local markets. Lawyers on the construction counseling and dispute resolution team have been hailed by Chambers as part of the “preeminent practice of its kind in the United States.” They’ve earned this distinction by working on some of the world’s most complex construction projects: the Panama Canal extension, major infrastructure cases around the globe and two of the largest hospital disputes in history, as well as commercial, industrial and residential projects worldwide.
A leading practice in nuclear law, oil and gas, and renewable and alternative energy, Pillsbury has received more than a dozen Deal of the Year awards from leading publications for projects in North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia.
Technology: Pillsbury established the firm’s technology industry legal practice in 1968, when it incorporated Intel. Today, the firm’s technology industry practice is one of the world’s largest, comprising more than 250 lawyers based in the United States, Europe and Asia.
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Advising WebEx on it’s start up venture financing, and it’s $3.2B acquisition of Cisco.
Leverage is the number of attorneys minus equity partners, divided by equity partners.
Salary scale is New York, but bonuses are not. Bonuses are awarded based on subjective “merit,” which is based in part on people with whom you’ve never worked deciding if you have exceptionally performed. Which means even if you bill well over 2000 hours, you can get shafted, like I did. Simply is not competitive.
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Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, also known as Pillsbury, is a full-service law firm with a particular focus on the energy, financial services, real estate and technology industries. Based in the world's major financial, technology and energy centers, Pillsbury counsels clients on global business, regulatory and litigation matters.
Predecessor firm Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro opened in San Francisco in 1874, making Pillsbury the oldest "powerhouse" law firm in California. In 1900, Pillsbury incorporated Standard Oil of California—the company would later become Chevron, which has remained one of the firm's longstanding clients. Pillsbury managed Chevron's then-record $13.2 billion cash merger with Gulf O…
As of December 2019, Pillsbury has 20 offices in the US, China and Japan.
• Advised Israeli spyware firm NSO Group on "business development opportunities and strategies to educate potential business and government partners about NSO’s state-of-the-art technologies, including legal advice on U.S. government procurement regulations and corporate compliance policies." The firm has been implicated in several high profile scandals involving it's Pegasus software being deployed on journalists, activists, world leaders, and dissidents around the world.
• Named to BTI’s 2019 Power Elite list; ranked No. 12 overall based on strength of client relationships.
• In 2019, appeared for the 11th time on Working Mother’s list of the best law firms for women; selected for the publication’s inaugural Hall of Fame class.
• In 2019, achieved a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index for the 13 consecutive years.
In April 2006, Pillsbury had a round of layoffs. These layoffs were in connection with the merger with Shaw Pitman in April 2005. The layoffs included its unofficial mascot, Martin Macy. Macy, who had started with the firm at the age 17, had been in the San Francisco office for 41 years prior to his dismissal. He was terminated from his position as messenger to save his annual salary of $34,000. At the time, the combined revenue for the partners at the firm had dropped from $780,0…
In 2009 a United States federal judge found misconduct by a number of lawyers regarding the conflict of interest disclosure failures by Pillsbury Winthrop in the SONICblue bankruptcy case stating "The reorganization of SONICblue, Inc. has been tragically marred by the misdeeds of professionals". Pillsbury was forced to disgorge $10 million in fees for filing a false affidavit and hiding their conflict of interest for the debtor in the bankruptcycase of SONICblue. The federal ju…
• Stewart, James (1983). The Partners: Inside America's Most Powerful Law Firms. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-671-42023-2.