Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis
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| Headquarters |
K&L Gates Center Pittsburgh |
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| No. of offices | 45 |
| No. of attorneys | Over 1800 |
| Major practice areas | General practice |
| Key people | James Segerdahl (global managing partner), Michael Caccese (chairman, management committee) |
| Revenue |
 US$1.17 billion (2016) |
| Date founded | 1883 (Seattle, U.S.A.) |
| Company type | Limited Liability Partnership |
| Website | www.klgates.com |
K&L Gates LLP is a US-based international law firm with offices in Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, South America, and the United States. Measured by headcount, it is the 8th largest law firm in the United States and the 11th largest among law firms worldwide. The firm delivers legal services at both an individual office level and through nine broad firmwide practice areas: Corporate and Transactional; Energy, Infrastructure and Resources; Finance; Financial Services; Intellectual Property; Labor, Employment and Workplace Safety; Litigation and Dispute Resolution; Real Estate; and Regulatory and Policy, each of which also include a number of subject matter and industry-based practice groups.
As of March 2017[update], the leaders of K&L Gates are James Segerdahl (global managing partner) and Michael Caccese (chairman, management committee). They replaced longtime chairman and global managing partner Peter Kalis, who had held that position since 1997.
In 2017 U.S. News ranked K&L as the best Law Firm in the category of Environmental Litigation. The Financial Times labeled K&L among the "Most innovative North American law firms 2015: Compliance & technology".
K&L Gates received a "100 percent" on the 2018 Corporate Equality Index compiled by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, an LGBT advocacy group. In 2016 the "Yale Law Women" included K&L gates in the top ten "family-friendly" law firms.
In September 2014, K&L Gates founded the "Cyber Civil Rights Legal Project". The project initially involves about fifty K&L lawyers working pro bono to assist about 100 victims of "revenge porn". According to the New York Times, the project is believed to be first of its kind at a major United States law firm. By 2016, the project has aided hundreds of victims and has led to a handful of arrests. In April 2017 the project secured an $8.9 million jury award for a King County couple, reportedly the largest award for non-celebrity targets of "revenge porn" to date.
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