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Kirkland & Ellis has a 100-year history of providing exceptional service to clients around the world in complex litigation, corporate and tax, intellectual property, restructuring and counseling matters. The groundwork has been established for another century of superior legal work and client service.

Philosophy

Kirkland's principal goals are to provide the highest quality legal services available anywhere; to be an instrumental part of each client's success; and to recruit, retain and advance the brightest legal talent. Our Firm seeks long-term, partnering relationships with clients, to the end of providing the best total solution to the client's legal needs.

Practice Areas

We manage our Firm as an integrated whole. Approximately 1,500 lawyers in varying practice areas work together as multidisciplinary teams to provide the full-service capabilities our clients need for the legal matters they retain Kirkland to handle.

Kirkland's free-market system allows each attorney to choose the practice areas and matters on which they work. This entrepreneurial approach yields higher levels of commitment, morale and results in all of our core practices:

   * Litigation: Kirkland has been recognized for its reputation as a Firm of trial lawyers (not just litigators) by successfully representing companies involved in business-critical lawsuits and class actions. Because of our trial-ready philosophy, we are able to offer a deep bench of lawyers who have been taking cases to verdict since the early stages of their careers.
      
   * Corporate and Tax: Kirkland lawyers negotiate and close highly sophisticated transactions, representing public and private companies and private equity investors in a broad range of transactions. Our tax lawyers have handled matters in the courtroom and boardroom, with proven results in the transactional and litigation arenas. Kirkland's real estate lawyers apply real estate, corporate, securities, partnership and tax law to complex business transactions involving the acquisition, ownership, financing and operation of commercial real estate.
      
   * Intellectual Property: Kirkland's intellectual property practice is one of the oldest such practices in a full-service firm. Clients benefit from our critical mass of lawyers who are trained in a variety of technical disciplines with experience in litigation, transactions and counseling matters involving all areas of intellectual property.
      
   * Restructuring: By combining sophisticated business advisory and crisis management skills with extensive experience in U.S., UK and international insolvency matters, Kirkland's restructuring lawyers navigate clients through the turmoil of situations involving financially troubled companies.


Diversity

At Kirkland, we believe that our ability to function at the very highest level of our profession is significantly enhanced by building a team of lawyers who bring us the benefits of a broad range of socioeconomic, racial, ethnic and personal backgrounds. Our commitment to diversity is reflected not only in the Firm's policies, programs and committees, but also through our efforts to build and maintain a culture that values and gathers strength from difference.

The Kirkland Institute

Effective training is critical to the professional development of our lawyers. For this reason, Kirkland emphasizes attorney training that combines a legal practice with a year-round series of development programs including mock exercises, lectures and presentations. From their first days at our Firm, Kirkland lawyers have front-line opportunities to take and defend depositions, draft transaction documents, argue motions in court and draft securities filings. By performing such work under the guidance of senior colleagues, Kirkland lawyers learn through hands-on experience.

Kirkland Institute programs include:  Trial Advocacy (KITA); Corporate Practice (KICP); Technology (KTECH); Tax Practice (KITP); Restructuring Training (KIRT); Patent Infringement Litigation (KIPIL); Insolvency Training (KIIT); and the LBO/Private Equity Seminar.

Geographic Reach

Kirkland is a strong and dynamic institution with a strategic network of offices located in major business centers around the globe. In line with our strategy of sensible, organic growth, the Firm has expanded geographically to meet the needs of our clients while maintaining a strong focus on quality control.

Results-Oriented

Kirkland stresses — and clients rightfully expect — good results. To that end, our Firm employs innovative, pragmatic strategies and hard work to ensure that our clients' legal needs are met. We recognize that our success depends on close coordination with our clients, therefore, our lawyers work collaboratively to set objectives, develop budgets and conduct periodic review sessions to measure our progress against those objectives.

Community Service

Our Firm is committed to serving the communities in which we practice and live. Through pro bono work, our lawyers make their skills and talents available to those who cannot afford legal representation. They provide pro bono clients with the same commitment and diligence they show for our traditional clients. The Kirkland & Ellis Foundation provides financial support to charitable and law-related organizations that enhance the quality of life through education, improved community services, cultural awareness, youth programs, healthcare, diversity sensitivity and many other initiatives.

Technology & Support Services

The Firm makes extensive use of legal and administrative personnel to provide the appropriate skill level for the legal services required by our clients. Kirkland keeps pace with today's technology by providing our lawyers, staff and clients with the most advanced technology tools available to facilitate the practice of law.
History: 

In 1909, two young attorneys, Stuart G. Shepard and Robert R. McCormick, teamed up to form the partnership that would eventually become Kirkland & Ellis. In a sign of what was to come, they built the success of their small firm on a shared vision of excellence in the practice of law.

McCormick was the grandson of Joseph Medill, the founder of the Chicago Tribune. McCormick was a larger-than-life figure. In addition to being an innovative and forceful lawyer, he served our country with distinction during World War I. By 1920, McCormick had become so active in the business affairs of the Chicago Tribune that he left the Firm to take over as the Tribune's publisher.

From the outset, McCormick pushed the Tribune toward an outspoken and crusading editorial policy. As a consequence, the Tribune soon required the services of a first-class trial lawyer to defend it against a mounting tide of defamation cases. McCormick turned to Weymouth Kirkland, who had joined the Firm in 1915. Over the course of his career, Kirkland attracted some of the Firm's largest clients. Often described as a brilliant trial lawyer, he served as chief counsel to the Tribune and other newspapers in various cases that became landmarks in free speech and libel law. In the late 1950s, The University of Chicago honored his outstanding contributions to the legal profession by naming the moot courtroom in their new law school building "The Weymouth Kirkland Courtroom."

Although Kirkland was the Firm's dominant figure during its first 50 years, there was another pivotal contributor to the Firm's early history. Howard Ellis joined the Firm as a young associate in 1915. He and Kirkland formed an incomparable and nearly unbeatable team. Ellis assisted Kirkland in many of his most famous trials. They made legal strides when Ellis pioneered the defense of "fair comment," which is today a basic right of free speech.

In 1938, Kirkland and Ellis were able to lure away a dynamic young trial lawyer from the U.S. Department of Justice named Hammond E. Chaffetz. Chaffetz ushered in the modern era of the Firm. A brilliant lawyer and leader, he also set the tone for the future steady expansion of the Firm by recruiting outstanding law school students from excellent schools. He hired and nurtured many of the lawyers who have since comprised the Firm's leadership. Chaffetz also instilled a deep sense of community within our partnership, whose members are proud to have made important contributions to the Chicago Symphony, Steppenwolf, United Way, The University of Chicago and Northwestern Law Schools and other leading civic, charitable and educational institutions.

Today, Kirkland & Ellis has grown to approximately 1,500 attorneys, and our practice areas have continued to expand to meet the needs of our diverse clientele. Kirkland & Ellis partners with clients located throughout the world to obtain cost-effective results in complicated litigation, corporate, intellectual property, restructuring, tax and counseling matters. The growing needs of our clients have also led the Firm to open offices in Washington, D.C., New York, Los Angeles, London, San Francisco, Munich, Hong Kong, and, most recently, Palo Alto, where the Firm's lawyers are expanding the Firm's proud tradition of excellent community service.

The strength and reputation of our Firm was built upon the strong foundation of ingenuity and leadership demonstrated by the likes of McCormick, Kirkland, Ellis and Chaffetz. They believed in hiring the best lawyers to take on the toughest cases and most challenging deals. The guiding principles which so effectively shaped Kirkland & Ellis in its first century have paved the way for continued excellence in its second century.


 
 
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