Butzel Long
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| Headquarters | Detroit, Michigan |
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| No. of offices | 6 domestic, 2 alliance offices internationally |
| No. of attorneys | 155 |
| Major practice areas | Litigation, Corporate, Labor & Employment |
| Key people | Justin G. Klimko, President and Managing Shareholder |
| Date founded | 1854 |
| Founder | William Austin Moore |
| Company type | Professional Corporation |
| Website | www.butzel.com |
Founded in 1854, Butzel Long is one of the oldest law firms in Michigan. Based in Detroit, Michigan, the firm has 155 attorneys throughout the State, in New York City, and Washington, D.C.. It has alliance offices in Mexico and China. Butzel Long is listed at number 284 in the 2012 ranking of the largest U.S. law firms by the National Law Journal.
The firm is a founding member of Lex Mundi, one of the first and largest networks of leading independent law firms located in 160 separate jurisdictions around the world.
Butzel Long traces its roots to 1854 when Detroit's economy was based on the Great Lakes shipping trade. Admiralty law was the specialty of founding senior partner William Austin Moore. He was called to Buffalo, Cleveland, Milwaukee, and Chicago to handle some of the most important cases of his time.
Moore played a prominent role in politics and served as president of the Detroit Board of Education. His political activism attracted Don M. Dickinson to the firm in 1867. Dickinson developed a national reputation as a lawyer and gained prominence in national politics as an adviser to Grover Cleveland. He managed Cleveland's successful campaign for president in 1884 and went on to serve as United States Postmaster General. Another member of the firm, Henry Thurber, served as Cleveland's personal secretary at the start of his second term as president in 1893.
The firm's political leanings attracted another top lawyer and Democratic activist, Elliot G. Stevenson, in 1887. He served as chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee in the 1890s. He represented all five Detroit newspapers in libel matters and established a national reputation as a libel lawyer. The Chicago Tribune called on him when Henry Ford filed his famous libel suit in 1918. Ford won the suit, but Stevenson won the day when the jury awarded damages of just six cents.
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