The Encyclopedia of World History by Jane Bingham

The Tokyo office of Bingham McCutchen became one of the largest law firms in Japan by its 2007 merger with a domestic law firm headed by Hideyuki Sakai, an insolvency specialist. All Bingham clients were subsequently released. īingham litigated a number of habeas corpus cases on behalf of the Uighur clients, as well as cases under the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 that brought to light evidentiary and procedural flaws in the 2004-05 Combatant Status Review Tribunals that were used to justify the Uighurs' ongoing imprisonment.

Ī team of Bingham attorneys and staff, led by Susan Baker Manning and Sabin Willett, represented pro bono a dozen Uighur men held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. In July 2009, Bingham McCutchen acquired McKee Nelson, a midsize law firm specializing in tax law and structured finance. In 2007, the firm acquired Los Angeles litigation shop Alschuler Grossman. Bingham also launched in Hong Kong that same year. 2006 saw a merger between Bingham McCutchen and Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman, a Washington, D.C.-based firm which brought greater capabilities in the nation's capital as well as a regulatory group. In 2003, the firm expanded in Southern California by merging with corporate boutique Riordan & McKinzie.

McCutchen Doyle brought five offices and a litigation and intellectual property focus. The next year, in 2002, Bingham Dana merged with San Francisco-based law firm McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen to form 800-lawyer Bingham McCutchen. In 2001, Bingham Dana bulked up in New York City through a merger with Richards & O'Neill, a boutique law firm of 55 attorneys known for its litigation and corporate groups. The next outpost was established in Hartford through a merger with 55-lawyer Hebb & Gitlin, a firm that concentrated on international bankruptcy work. In 1997, Bingham Dana acquired the 30-lawyer Japanese practice group of Marks & Murase, giving the firm offices in New York and Los Angeles and a strong base of Japanese institutional clients. įrom 1997, the company experienced sharp growth in the number of attorneys, offices, and revenues by absorbing other law firms. History īingham, Dana & Gould was founded in Boston in 1891. It ceased operations in late 2014, when several hundred of its partners and associate lawyers left the firm to join Philadelphia-based Morgan Lewis. Financial restructuring, securities, litigation, antitrust, private equity, corporate finance, government affairsīingham McCutchen LLP was a global law firm with approximately 850 attorneys in nine US offices and five international offices.

The Encyclopedia of World History by Jane Bingham