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| Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP |
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Overview:
Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP is an international litigation and business law firm that provides counseling, risk management, litigation management, trial, appellate and transactional legal services to sophisticated corporate clients. Founded in 1933 as a three-person firm in San Francisco, Sedgwick now has more than 350 attorneys in offices around the world. Sedgwick's collective experience spans the globe and virtually every industry. |
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History:
2008 marked Sedgwick’s 75th anniversary. We’ve come a long way from our modest beginnings as a five-attorney law firm to our current status as an international trial and litigation firm with 13 offices, dozens of practice areas, and more than 350 attorneys worldwide. Click here to read more about our founding partners and the firm's history.
In 1933, the firm that would become Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold was founded. Sedgwick continued to grow through the 1930s and 1940s, expanding its service offerings and solidifying its reputation as a trial and litigation firm. The 1950s represented the emergence of the first multi-plaintiff consumer litigation. We were chosen to represent Cutter Laboratories in the polio vaccine lawsuits which filled the courtrooms during most of the 1950s. Our current name of Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold was adopted in 1959.
During the 1960s and 70s, multi-plaintiff litigation led to mass tort litigation involving class actions, and multi-district and market share litigation. Sedgwick was repeatedly selected as lead counsel to represent local, regional and national interests in these cases. In 1979, we opened our Los Angeles office in order to serve an expanding Southern California client base.
The 1980s saw rapid expansion of our firm, fueled by that decade's economic boom and an increasingly complex business and legal environment. New practice areas were added to complement our traditional general litigation practice, including product liability, toxic tort, drug and medical device litigation, construction, environmental, employment, entertainment, healthcare, insurance and reinsurance and intellectual property law.
In February of 1985, our New York office was opened to serve clients in the areas of fidelity and surety law and pharmaceutical product liability litigation. As insurance and corporate markets became increasingly global in nature, an office was opened in London, England in 1985. In 1988, our firm expanded its Southern California presence with a new office in Orange County. We rounded out a decade of growth by opening an office in Chicago in December, 1989.
During the 1990s, we continued to expand -- both geographically and statistically. By the end of 1998, we numbered 270 attorneys, up from 100 in 1985. The growth has been organic, rather than by merger. Lateral partner additions have been primarily client driven.
In July 2000, we added a Paris office to complement our European practice. Our office in Newark, New Jersey opened in January 2001 to provide complex class action and mass tort litigation services for industrial, chemical and pharmaceutical clients. Our second office expansion in 2001 was marked by our entry into the Dallas market in April.
We expanded our presence in Texas in 2006. Our office in Austin opened to serve our media, entertainment and sports clients, and our Houston office opened in December of that year with a core admiralty and insurance clientele. Both offices have since grown, adding attorneys with extensive experience in both commercial and mass tort litigation.
Our most recent expansion has been in the Southeast with the 2009 opening of our Fort Lauderdale office. Today, Sedgwick continues to expand our presence nationally and worldwide. |
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