Arnstein & Lehr, LLP
| Headquarters |
120 South Riverside Plaza, Suite 1200 Chicago, Illinois |
|---|---|
| No. of offices | 9 |
| No. of attorneys | approximately 150 |
| Major practice areas | General practice |
| Date founded | 1893 |
| Founder | Albert Henry Loeb, and Sidney Adler |
| Company type | Limited liability partnership |
| Website | [1] |
Founded in Chicago in 1893, Arnstein & Lehr is a national law firm with offices in Chicago, and Springfield, Illinois; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Boca Raton, Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Tampa, and West Palm Beach, Florida. The Firm has represented business enterprises in significant legal victories in the United States and Puerto Rico. Its representation of Sears, Roebuck and Co. since 1895 is one of the country’s longest continuous attorney-client relationships.
In 1893, Albert Henry Loeb and Sydney Adler founded a law partnership specializing in corporate and real estate law, known as Loeb & Adler, with offices in room 903 of the Chamber of Commerce Building on the southeast corner of LaSalle and Washington Streets in Chicago. In 1895, the Firm handled the reorganization of Sears and the entry into the company of Julius Rosenwald and Aaron Nusbaum. Albert Henry Loeb was retained to draft the reorganization documents giving equal ownership to Rosenwald and Nusbaum with Richard Warren Sears, and incorporating the company in Illinois.
By 1898 the Firm’s clients included the State Bank of Chicago, Security Title & Trust Company, The Sheriff of Cook County, and all the Judges of the Circuit Court and Superior Courts of Cook County. In 1902 the Firm represented the Coliseum Garden Company “to provide music and high class vaudeville entertainment.”
Albert Henry Loeb resigned from the Firm in 1903 to become a full-time executive for Sears. In 1923, United States Senator James Hamilton Lewis, who had lost a re-election bid, joined the Firm as a partner and his name was included in the Firm name. To begin his successful bid to regain his seat in the Senate, he resigned from the Firm in 1927. In 1929, Lucy Mae Viner, one of the earliest women lawyers in the city, became an associate, and law firm chicago then in 1934 the Firm’s first woman partner, listed as L. M. Varner. The Firm represented Kroehler Manufacturing Mfg. Co., Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., Lady Esther Company, The Edgewater Beach Hotel, Lloyd A Fry Roofing Co., Johnson Controls, Inc. and Navistar. By 1970, the Firm was outside General Counsel for five New York Stock Exchange Companies, DeSoto, Roper Corporation, Sears Roebuck & Co., Universal-Rundle Corporation and Whirlpool Corporation.
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