Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr
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| Headquarters | Washington, D.C. and Boston, Massachusetts |
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| No. of offices | 12 |
| No. of attorneys | 1031 (2013) |
| No. of employees | approximately 2,500 |
| Major practice areas | General Practice |
| Key people | William F. Lee, William J. Perlstein, Robert T. Novick, Susan W. Murley |
| Revenue |
 US$1.13 billion (2017) |
| Date founded | Boston, Massachusetts (1918); Washington, D.C. (1962) |
| Founder | multiple |
| Company type | Limited liability partnership |
| Website | www.wilmerhale.com |
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP (known as WilmerHale) is an American law firm with 12 offices across the United States, Europe and Asia. It was created in 2004, through the merger of the Boston-based firm, Hale and Dorr and the Washington-based firm Wilmer Cutler & Pickering; and employs more than 1,000 attorneys worldwide. The firm is consistently ranked as one of the most prestigious firms in the United States as well as one of the most selective American law firms for graduating law students, particularly its Washington and Boston offices. Robert Mueller was partner at WilmerHale's Washington, D.C. office upon concluding his tenure as FBI Director and before being hired as Special Counsel to the ongoing investigation into Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election in 2016.
Hale and Dorr was founded in Boston in 1918 by Richard Hale, Dudley Huntington Dorr, Frank Grinnell, Roger Swaim and John Maguire. Reginald Heber Smith, author of the seminal work Justice and the Poor and a pioneer in the American legal aid movement, joined the firm in 1919 and served as managing partner for thirty years. Hale and Dorr gained national recognition in 1954 when partner Joseph Welch, assisted by associate James St. Clair and John Kimball, Jr., represented the U.S. Army on a pro bono basis during the historic Army-McCarthy hearings. In 1974, James D. St. Clair represented President Richard Nixon before the Supreme Court of the United States in United States v. Nixon. In 1988, partner Paul Brountas chaired the presidential campaign of Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, and in 1990, senior partner William Weld was elected governor. The firm has had a long and mutually profitable relationship with nearby Harvard Law School, alma mater of more than a fifth of Wilmer Hale's current lawyers, and home of the Wilmer Hale Legal Services Center.
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