Headquarters | Phoenix, Arizona |
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No. of offices | 10 |
No. of attorneys | 300+ |
Major practice areas | Corporate and financial services and securities, environmental and natural resources, litigation, intellectual property |
Date founded | 1950 |
Company type | LLP |
Website | www |
Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie is a U.S. law firm, with approximately 300 attorneys in ten offices in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico. In 2015, The American Lawyer magazine ranked the firm number 179 in its annual Top 200 U.S. law firms list. Its administrative offices are located in Phoenix, where is it one of the top five law firms in Arizona
The firm has handled pro bono cases including Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966), in which partners John P. Frank, John Flynn and others represented Ernesto Miranda in the landmark case US Supreme Court case, giving rise to "Miranda Rights."
The firm represents clients across a range of practice areas, managed through primary practice groups for litigation, intellectual property, business transactions, gaming law, and regulatory and government relations.
The firm’s largest practice group, litigation, includes lawyers in areas including religious institutions, insurance, labor and employment law, IP litigation, product liability, appellate and real estate litigation. Attorneys handle commercial disputes before state and federal trial and appellate courts and administrative tribunals.
Many attorneys in the firm’s second largest practice group, intellectual property, have science and engineering backgrounds. The group handles cases of IP procurement, enforcement and defense, including IP licensing, IP strategy, prosecution and litigation for patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets, and Internet law and domain disputes.