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Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP
Shook, Hardy & Bacon
HeadquartersKansas City, Missouri
No. of offices9
No. of attorneys500
No. of employees1,500
Major practice areasProduct Liability, Tort, Business Litigation, Intellectual Property, Environmental and Toxic Tort, Labor and Employment
Key peopleJohn F. Murphy, Chairman of the firm[1]
Revenue$330M (2008)
Date founded1889[2]
FounderFrank Payne Sebree[3]
Company typeLimited liability partnership
Websiteshb.com

Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP is a large U.S. law firm based in Kansas City, Missouri. In 2008, the National Law Journal ranked the firm as the 83rd largest in the United States.

Personnel

One of the more unusual features of Shook, Hardy & Bacon is that the firm maintains a full time scientific research staff of 200 analysts and 125 researchers. These employees advise the firm's attorneys on technical issues in the course of complex litigation, patent prosecution, and selection of expert witnesses.

Practice areas

The firm has practice groups in intellectual property, bankruptcy, commercial transactions, tax law, banking law, products liability/Tobacco, corporate and securities law, health law, insurance law, real estate, construction law, environmental law, and antitrust.

Notable clients

One of the firm's longtime clients is Philip Morris (now Altria Group).[4]. The firm procured expert witnesses for the company prior to the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement.[5] SHB also maintains a large clientèle of pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, Bayer AG, Wyeth, Eli Lilly and Company, Baxter International, Zimmer Holdings and Indevus. [6] Shook also has an extensive roster of intellectual property clients and recently was named by Microsoft as one of its preferred providers for legal services. In 2007, Shook also won a $69.5 million verdict on behalf of client Sprint Nextel, against Vonage.[7]

Relationship with Big Tobacco

The firm has represented five of the six Big Tobacco companies: American Brands, Brown & Williamson, RJR Nabisco, Philip Morris (now Altria Group) and Loews Inc.[8] In 1992, a federal judge all but accused the firm of orchestrating fraud on behalf of the tobacco industry and exerting attorney-client privilege to hide facts about tobacco's health hazards.[9]

Notable lawyers and alumni

John Murphy, Chairman

Executive Leadership

Robert Adams, Tort Section Chair
Walter Cofer, Product Liability Partner
Michael Gross, Intellectual Property Section Co-Chair
Frank Kelly, Product Liability Partner
Madeleine McDonough, Agribusiness & Food Safety Practice Co-Chair
Bruce Tepikian, Product Liability Partner
David Thorne, Product Liability Partner
Martha Warren, National Product Liability Division Managing Partner
Gene Williams, Houston Managing Partner
George Wolf, General Litigation Division Chair
Gene Voigts, General Counsel
William Johnsmeyer, Chief Operating Officer

Office Management

Gene Williams, Houston Managing Partner
Simon Castley, London Managing Partner
Lea Souza-Rasile, Miami Managing Partner
Frank Rothrock, Orange County Managing Partner
Alicia Donahue, San Francisco Managing Partner
Daniel Molony, Tampa Managing Partner
Michelle Mangrum, Washington, D.C. Managing Partner

Offices

United States

International

References

  1. ^ Murphy's firm bio
  2. ^ Firm profile
  3. ^ Shook Hardy Smokes 'Em Journal of the American Bar Association, October 2008
  4. ^ Sourcewatch profile
  5. ^ Copy of legal bills and expert witness lists from tobaccodocuments.org
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