Founded in 1934, Latham & Watkins has grown into a full-service international powerhouse
with more than 2,100 attorneys in 26 offices around the world. The founders
of Latham & Watkins instilled an ethic of hard work, commitment and quality
that flourishes today and has nurtured the firm's dramatic growth into one of
the world's premier business law firms. With that growth, we have built internationally
recognized practices in a wide spectrum of transactional, litigation,
corporate and regulatory areas. We have also received praise for our innovative
approach to law firm management and for our pro bono work both on a local and
global scale. Our success is grounded in our devotion to the collaborative process,
which reaches across global offices and practices and draws upon our deep
subject matter expertise, an abiding commitment to teamwork and a powerful tradition
of creative lawyering.
Our departments are each recognized as
leaders in the legal profession. Latham consistently ranks among the best transactional
and finance practices in leading legal publications such as The American
Lawyer, mergermarket, Chambers and Asia Legal Business and earns praise worldwide
for work on high-profile and groundbreaking deals. The firm has one of
the largest and most sophisticated litigation practices in the world, offering
expertise in a multitude of substantive areas. Our litigation department has placed
among the top five litigation practices in the US in each of the last two
The American Lawyer "Litigation Department of the Year" surveys. Our environmental
practice has been at the forefront of this rapidly changing area for the last
two decades and was named as the top firm in the world for environmental expertise
by The International Who's Who in 2005. The firm has a long and rich history
in tax matters, dating back to founding partner Dana Latham, former Commissioner
of the US Internal Revenue Service. |
