Howrey

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Howrey LLP is a global law firm that practices antitrust laws, global litigation, and intellectual property laws. At its peak, Howrey has more than 700 lawyers in 17 locations around the world.

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History

The company was founded as Howrey, Simon, Baker, & amp; Murchison in July 1956 by four antitrust lawyers: Jack Howrey, former chairman of the Federal Trade Commission under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Bill Simon, Hal Baker, and Dave Murchison. It was the first national antitrust company. He hired his first patent lawyer partner in 1972, and in 1985, Howrey had 150 lawyers with a list of clients across the country.

In 2000, Howrey & amp; Simon joined Arnold, White & amp; Durkee, an intellectual property specialist company founded in 1956 in Houston, Texas with offices in six cities and 120 lawyers. This combination produces the new company Howrey, Simon, Arnold & amp; White, with 350 lawyers, one of the world's largest antimonopoly and intellectual property practices, and laid the groundwork for overseas company expansion. Between 2000 and 2008, the company expanded more than 700 lawyers and 17 offices in the United States, Europe and Asia.

Howrey provides over 45,000 hours of free legal assistance to over 250 pro clients. The company was awarded the Thomas L. Sager Award 2003 by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association for its commitment to promoting diversity in the workplace.

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Partner departure and dissolution

About 60 lawyers depart from Howrey in the year prior to January 2011, including co-chairs of antitrust practices and corporate litigation. Winston & amp; Strawn is reportedly considered a merger with Howrey in late January, but offers to take on most of Howrey's partners. The company continues to lose partners as a group of 11 lawyers from the Howrey Chicago office move to Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, including the office managing partner and leader of the action martial arts class.

On March 9, 2011, Howrey LLP Executive Committee announced that, based on voting by the company's partnership, it would dissolve the existing Howrey partnership, effective March 15, 2011 and begin its orderly affairs. On March 31, 2011, Howrey LLP closed its doors to fire all its employees. In April 2011, Trepel McGrane Greenfield LLP, a law firm headquartered in San Jose, California, representing a group of suspected creditors from Howrey LLP, filed an unintended insolvency bankruptcy petition against a law firm with the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District from California. The unintentional case of article 7 was changed to the case of bankruptcy of article 11 in June 2011 at the request of law firms. On July 6, 2011, Howrey filed for an asset and liability schedule with a bankruptcy court that registered assets of $ 138.7 million and a $ 107 million liability.