WolfBlock
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| Headquarters | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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| No. of offices | 8 |
| No. of attorneys | approximately 317 |
| Major practice areas | General practice, including lobbying |
| Key people | Mark L. Alderman, Executive Committee Chair |
| Revenue | $159.5M (2008) |
| Date founded | 1903 |
| Founder | Horace Stern and Morris Wolf |
| Company type | Limited liability partnership |
| Slogan | Sound counsel. Since 1903. |
| Dissolved | Announced dissolution 23 March 2009, by vote of partners |
| Website | WolfBlock.com |
WolfBlock LLP (formerly Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen) was a large U.S. law firm and lobbying group based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The National Law Journal ranked WolfBlock the 149th largest firm in the United States, and the 10th largest in Philadelphia, by number of attorneys. The firm was best known for its lobbying and government relations practice, as well as for being one of the oldest law firms in Philadelphia.
WolfBlock was founded in 1903 by Horace Stern and Morris Wolf. Stern would go on to work for the United States Department of War and would go on to serve as Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. One of the firm's first major clients was the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company, one of the predecessors of SEPTA. The firm gradually expanded, and after World War II, acquired several smaller firms, becoming a sizable regional firm.
In 2002 the firm established a lobbying subsidiary, WolfBlock Government Relations L.P., in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The subsidiary was expanded into Washington D.C. the following year.
WolfBlock's management had planned a merger with the 500+ lawyer Miami, Florida-based law firm of Akerman Senterfitt, which would have created a single 800-lawyer firm. But on 7 August 2008, the two firms released a joint statement explaining that the merger had been put on hold due to “a client conflict that cannot be discussed publicly”.
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