Venable LLP

Venable LLP is a law firm formerly known as Venable, Baetjer & Howard LLP. The firm is ranked 66th in the 2016 AmLaw 100 survey. It was founded in Baltimore in 1900. Today the firm maintains 9 offices throughout the country and includes over 600 attorneys practicing in over 70 practice and industry areas covering corporate and business law, complex litigation, intellectual property and regulatory and government affairs.

Venable is nationally ranked by a number of legal and business journals. It ranked 66th in the 2016 AmLaw 100 list, and 84th on the National Law Journal's top 250 law firms list. Regionally, the Washington Post listed Venable among the 10 largest D.C. law firms in 2012. In 2013, the Baltimore Business Journal listed Venable as the largest law firm in the Baltimore, MD area and the Los Angeles Business Journal listed Venable as the 69th largest firm in Los Angeles County.

A number of Venable practices have garnered national recognition. U.S. News and World Report’s Best Law Firms 2016 survey ranked Venable Tier 1 nationally in 19 categories, with rankings in 104 total national and regional categories.The Best Lawyers in America recognized 93 Venable attorneys in their 2016 rankings, including a record eight attorneys who were named "Lawyer of the Year" in Baltimore and Washington, DC.Chambers USA ranked 32 Venable practices and 69 attorneys in 2016, including a coveted Client Services Award for the Product Liability and Mass Torts Practice.Chambers has previously presented its Award for Excellence to Venable's Privacy and Data Security (2009) and Advertising, Marketing and New Media (2010 and 2011) practices. Fourteen of the firm's practices also received high rankings in Legal 500's 2015 edition with the firm named to Tier 1 for M&A: Middle-Market (sub-$500m), Marketing and Advertising, Not-for-Profit (Nonprofit and Tax Exempt Organizations), and Technology: Transactions. Venable was listed in the 2014 BTI Client Services A-Team report as one of the top 30 firms worldwide for client service. In 2013, Vault’s rating of summer associate program named Venable first for Best Overall Summer Associate Program and Summer Associate Program that Best Prepares for Practice.

The Washington Business Journal honored Venable in 2014 with an award for Corporate Philanthropy by Giving. In 2015, Law360 released a survey which ranked Venable among the top five most charitable law firms in the country.

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