Headquarters | Clayton, Missouri |
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No. of offices | 9 |
No. of attorneys | approximately 250 (2014) |
No. of employees | 485 (including attorneys) |
Major practice areas | General practice |
Key people | John S. Beulick, managing partner |
Date founded | 1901 |
Founder | Thomas Harper Cobbs and John E. Bishop |
Company type | Limited liability partnership |
Website | armstrongteasdale |
Armstrong Teasdale LLP is a law firm headquartered in St. Louis. With nine offices in the United States and one in Shanghai, its lawyers represent Fortune 100 and 500 companies as well as mid-sized and smaller clients. Operating on a national, regional and international basis, the firm handles a wide range of matters that fall into the following general areas: corporate services; financial and real estate services; intellectual property; international; and litigation.
Litigation is Armstrong Teasdale’s largest practice area and its trial lawyers have been recognized for their successful results and quoted in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and other major publications. They have backgrounds in diverse areas, including intellectual property, products liability, construction, health care and white collar criminal defense.
However, intellectual property is a growing practice area for Armstrong Teasdale. With the largest patent practice in St. Louis, the firm has been recognized by Intellectual Property Today as one of the nation’s top patent firms. It is also listed in the Law360 IP 100, the online legal news service’s ranking of U.S. law firms with the largest intellectual property practice groups.
Armstrong Teasdale is a member of Lex Mundi, a global association of 160 prominent law firms, United States Law Firm Group, a network of law firms located in major U.S. cities; and State Law Resources, Inc., an organization of firms with expertise in administrative, regulatory, and government relations at the state and federal levels.
The firm earned the highest possible score on a Human Rights Campaign Foundation surveythat measures corporate policies and practices with the LGBT community. The survey looked at factors such as protections against discrimination in the workplace; domestic partner benefits; transgender-inclusive health care benefits; competency programs; and public engagement with the LGBT community.
The firm was founded in 1901 by business lawyers Thomas Harper Cobbs and John E. Bishop. The name changed to Cobbs, Logan, Armstrong, Teasdale & Roos in 1949. The firm’s expansion includes two mergers, one with the St. Louis-based Schlafly, Griesedieck, Toft & Virtel in 1986 and the other with Kansas City-based firm of Dietrich, Davis, Dicus, Rowlands, Schmitt & Gorman in 1989.