No. of offices 46 Major practice areas General practice Date founded 1883 (Seattle, U.S.A.) Founded 2007 | No. of attorneys Over 2000 Key people Peter Kalis (chairman) Number of offices 46 | |
Company type Limited Liability Partnership Headquarters Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States Subsidiaries Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds LLP Profiles | ||
K&L Gates LLP is a US-based international law firm with offices in Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, South America, and the United States. Measured by headcount, it is the 8th largest law firm in the United States and the 11th largest among law firms worldwide. The firm delivers legal services at both an individual office level and through nine broad firmwide practice areas: Corporate and Transactional; Energy, Infrastructure and Resources; Finance; Financial Services; Intellectual Property; Labor, Employment and Workplace Safety; Litigation and Dispute Resolution; Real Estate; and Regulatory and Policy, each of which also include a number of subject matter and industry-based practice groups.
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Corporate governance
As of 2016, the chairman and global managing partner of the firm is Peter Kalis. He has held that position since 1997. In 2013, Kalis was named both one of the top legal innovators of the past 50 years by The American Lawyer magazine and among the legal industry’s most innovative and groundbreaking thinkers on The National Law Journal’s inaugural list of “Top 50 Legal Business Trailblazers & Pioneers”
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Political contributions
According to the Center for Responsive Politics, K&L Gates was one of the top law firms contributing to federal candidates during the 2012 election cycle, donating $1.29 million, 52% to Democrats. By comparison, during that same period Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld donated $2.56 million, 66% to Democrats, while oil conglomerate ExxonMobil donated $2.66 million, 88% to Republicans. Since 1990, K&L Gates contributed $10.26 million to federal campaigns, and spent $1.25 million on lobbying since 1999.