Greenberg Traurig LLP is an international law firm with approximately 1,700 attorneys
and governmental professionals in 29 locations in the United States, Europe
and Asia. Its headquarters are in Miami, Florida. Its presence in Europe is supplemented
by strategic alliances with Olswang (offices in London, United Kingdom
and Brussels, Belgium), and Studio Santa Maria (offices in Milan, Italy and
Rome, Italy). In Tokyo, Japan the firm maintains both its own office and a strategic
alliance with Hayabusa Kokusai Law Offices. Greenberg Traurig is the seventh
largest American law firm based on number of lawyers.
Greenberg
Traurig is managed by its Chief Executive Officer, Cesar L. Alvarez, and its Chairman
and Founder, Larry J. Hoffman, from its Miami, Florida office, the firm's
historic base of operations and administrative headquarters.
As of
2006, it was the 16th largest law firm in the world by revenue.
Greenberg,
Traurig and Hoffman was founded in Miami, Florida in 1967 by attorneys
Lawrence J. Hoffman, Mel Greenberg, Robert Traurig. The firm initially had only
one associate and one junior partner, and had no plans of expanding outside the
Miami metropolitan area. As recently as 1991 it only had two offices, in Miami
and Fort Lauderdale.
After Hoffman became managing partner in 1991,
the firm began to expand nationwide, beginning with the opening of an office
in New York City. Much of the firm's growth was achieved by handpicking lawyers
compatible with the firm's goals. The firm claims that this tactic allows the
firm to grow without diluting its business-oriented, 'built for change' culture,
a unique outlook on the practice of law that is uncommon among other major firms.
During the past decade, the firm grew by over 800 percent and New York became
its largest center of business. |
