Dewey Ballantine
Headquarters | New York City, New York, United States |
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No. of offices | 12 before merger |
No. of attorneys | approximately 500 before merger |
Major practice areas | corporate law |
Date founded | 1909 |
Founder | Grenville Clark[1] Francis W. Bird[1] Elihu Root, Jr.[1] |
Dissolved | 2007LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae to become Dewey & LeBoeuf | — merged with
Dewey Ballantine LLP was a corporate law firm headquartered in New York City. In 2007, Dewey Ballantine merged with LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae to form Dewey & LeBoeuf. Dewey Ballantine underwent numerous name changes throughout its history as partners left to serve in government positions or form new firms.
History
Founding
In 1909, three recent
Name changes
In 1913, the firm merged with the firm of Buckner & Howland (recently founded by Emory Buckner) to form Root, Clark, Buckner & Howland.
In 1919,
The firm also built up a corporate practice, serving clients such as AT&T and Standard Oil. Overall, the firm expanded from 8 to 74 associates and opened a second office in Washington, D.C. Both Henry Friendly and John Marshall Harlan II worked at the firm during this period.
The firm weathered many name changes from its founding through 1955, as named partners left the firm for periods of time to serve in a number of important government positions. Among them was
In 1955, Governor Thomas E. Dewey joined the firm as a partner after leaving office and the firm, then called Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer & Wood, became Dewey, Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer & Wood. It shortened the name to Dewey Ballantine in 1990 and later adopted the limited liability partnership form, becoming Dewey Ballantine LLP.
In 1961, Dewey invited
Final years
On October 25, 2006, the firm announced that it would merge with the San Francisco-based, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe. With over 1,500 attorneys, the combined firm would have been among the 10 largest firms in the United States.[2] Ultimately, however, the two firms were not able to successfully negotiate the merger and it was called off in January 2007.[3] At about that time, Dewey Ballantine had approximately 500 attorneys in 12 offices around the world.
On October 1, 2007, Dewey Ballantine merged with
Notable alumni
- Governor of New York (1943–1954) and twice Republican candidate for the U.S. Presidency (1944 and 1948)
- U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize[5]
- U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and one of the architects of the modern Wall Streetlegal culture
- U.S. Supreme Court Justice
- Henry Friendly, Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
- Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University
- Attorney General of the United States under President Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Richard Owen, U.S. District Court Judge, Southern District of New York
- George E. Cleary, Leo Gottlieb and Melvin C. Steen, founding partners of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
- Marshall Skadden, Leslie Arps and John Slate, founding partners of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
- Francis T. P. Plimpton, founding partner of Debevoise & Plimpton
- Robert P. Patterson and Vanderbilt Webb, founding partners of Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler
- Lloyd K. Garrison, name partner of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
- Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
References
- ^ a b c "Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP". LawCrossing.com. 2010-11-02. Retrieved 2020-07-30.
- ^ http://www.orrick.com/news_events/releases.asp?action=article&articleid=4095 Archived 2008-04-02 at the Wayback Machine Dewey and Orrick Reach Major Milestone in Merger Discussions
- ^ https://blogs.wsj.com/law/2007/01/04/dewey-orrick-merger-is-off/ Dewey Orrick Merger is Off
- ^ Lattman, Peter. "Dewey & LeBoeuf Files for Bankruptcy". DealBook. Retrieved 2020-08-25.
- ^ Pigott, Roger, "Elihu Root: Nobel Peace Prize Recipient and Manhattan Real Estate Pioneer", Judicial Notice 15:2020, pp. 56-65