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Overview:
At Hunton & Williams LLP, we provide our clients with experience and advice in virtually every discipline of the law. We coordinate multifaceted teams in negotiation, dispute resolution and transactions for the protection of your interests. With lawyers in the United States, Europe and Asia, and extensive practices in Africa and South America, we can respond knowledgeably, effectively and quickly, whether the issue is local, regional, national or international.
Our lawyers speak more than a dozen languages and are familiar with international business customs. Our awareness of and respect for cultural differences support our ability to manage the challenges of doing business in the global community.
Our clients can expect our lawyers to be responsive, attentive and flexible, and to communicate on a regular basis and in understandable terms. This approach manifests itself in many ways, from assuring that telephone calls are returned promptly to identifying cost savings that the client might not have previously considered.
We come from nearly every state in America and many nations of the world. Within the firm are graduates of more than 65 law schools and more than 100 colleges and universities. Our diverse backgrounds are united by our commitment to provide clients with quality legal services.
Since our founding in 1901, we have prided ourselves on excellence and hard work. Our sense of achievement and our prosperity are inextricably linked with yours. |
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History:
1901: Munford, Hunton, Williams & Anderson is founded to provide Virginia with a full-service law firm that can compete with the best in the nation.
1904: The firm takes on its first electric utility company as a client, beginning its historic practice in energy.
1910: In addition to utilities, the firm represents railroads, banks, insurance companies and energy companies such as Standard Oil.
1920s: Partner Henry Anderson serves in the administrations of Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover.
1930s: Anderson becomes a legend in the railroad industry, at one point reorganizing the financial structure of five large railroads at the same time. Partner Edmund Preston gains a national reputation in labor law.
1934: The firm counsels the New York Stock Exchange in hearings on the new Securities Exchange Act.
1935: The firm represents the utilities industry before Congress and raises its profile nationally.
1943: Hunton & Williams hires its first women associates, Sarah Geer Dale and Nan Ross McConnell.
1950: The firm consists of 10 partners and one associate, nicknamed "Atlas."
1951: The firm's size doubles, to 22 lawyers.
1950s: Recognizing the increasing specialization of the law, the firm organizes teams in labor, tax and litigation.
1955: Partners Lewis Powell Jr. and George Gibson draft the firm's first formal partnership agreement since the early 1900s. It begins, "The practice of the law is a service to society. While an aid to business, it is concerned also with the public welfare."
1967: Hunton & Williams opens its second office, in Washington, DC.
1972: Lewis F. Powell Jr., one of the firm's senior partners, is appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States.
1976: The name of the firm is fixed as "Hunton & Williams." The firm employs 112 lawyers.
1979: The firm opens its third office, in Norfolk, to accommodate firm clients.
1980: The firm establishes its North Carolina presence by merging with Joyner & Howison, in Raleigh.
1983: Knoxville office opens.
1984: The New York office opens.
1984: The firm reaches into Northern Virginia, to the "technology corridor" near Tysons Corner in McLean.
1986: The firm grows to 349 lawyers in seven offices.
1988: Atlanta office opens in the business capital of the South.
1989: Hunton & Williams becomes an international firm with the opening of its Brussels office.
1990: Hunton & Williams opens an office devoted exclusively to pro bono work in Richmond's Church Hill neighborhood.
1994: The Hong Kong office establishes the firm's presence in Asia.
1995: Charlotte becomes the firm's second office in North Carolina.
1999: New offices in London and Miami place the firm at two more major crossroads of international finance and trade.
1999: The American Bar Association honors Hunton & Williams with its Pro Bono Publico Award.
2000: More than 680 Hunton & Williams attorneys work in 15 offices in the United States, Europe and Asia.
2001: The firm celebrates its centennial.
2002: Hunton & Williams combines with Worsham Forsythe Wooldridge LLP, adds Dallas and Austin offices.
2003: Hunton & Williams registers as a limited liability partnership. Singapore office opens.
2003: More than 850 Hunton & Williams LLP attorneys work in 17 offices in the United States, Europe and Asia.
2004: Robert J. Grey Jr. becomes President of the American Bar Association.
2005: Beijing office opens.
2005: Hunton & Williams partners with the University of Virginia Law School to provide pro bono services in Charlottesville area.
2005: Houston office opens.
2006: Firm selects Walfrido J. Martinez as new Managing Partner, first Hispanic American to serve in this position.
2006: New office in Los Angeles puts firm on West Coast.
2007: Texas presence expands with the addition of nearly 100 lawyers and a new office in Austin.
2007: More than 1,000 Hunton & Williams attorneys work in 19 offices in the United States, Europe and Asia.
2008: San Francisco becomes the firm's second office in California. |
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